Mathematician:Fan Chung Graham

Mathematician

Taiwanese-American mathematician noted for her work in the areas of spectral graph theory, extremal graph theory and random graphs.

Generalized the Erdős-Rényi model.

Wife of Ronald Graham, friend and colleague of Paul Erdős.

Nationality

Taiwanese

History

• Born: October 9, 1949, Kaohsiung.

Publications

Papers and Lectures

A couple of hundred papers, including:

• 1973: On the Ramsey numbers N(3, 3, ..., 3; 2)
• 1973: On triangular and cyclic Ramsey numbers with k colors
• 1975: Optimal rearrangeable graphs
• 1975: On multicolor Ramsey numbers for complete bipartite graphs (with Ron Graham)
• 1989: Steiner trees on a checkerboard (with Martin Gardner and R.L. Graham)
• 1991: Laplacians of graphs and hypergraphs
• June 2005: Random Graphs and Internet Graphs

Books

• 1997: Spectral Graph Theory (ISBN 0-8218-0315-8)
• 1998: Erdős on Graphs: His Legacy of Unsolved Problems (with Ron Graham) (ISBN 1-56881-079-2)
• 2006: Complex Graphs and Networks (with Linyuan Lu) (ISBN 0-8218-3657-9)

Also known as

Full name: Fan Rong K Chung Graham

In Taiwanese: 金芳蓉, pinyin: Jīn Fāngróng.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Fan Chung Graham": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive