Mathematician:Herbert Saul Wilf

Mathematician

American mathematician who specializes in combinatorics and graph theory.

He has made available certain of his works for free download.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 13 June 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Died: 7 January 2012 in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania

Theorems and Definitions

• Calkin-Wilf Tree (with Neil James Calkin)
• Szekeres-Wilf Number (with George Szekeres)

Definitions of concepts named for Herbert Saul Wilf can be found here.

Publications

• 1962: Mathematics for the Physical Sciences
• 1968: An Inequality for the Chromatic Number of a Graph (with George Szekeres)
• 1986: Algorithms and Complexity

• 1990: generatingfunctionology
  • 1994: generatingfunctionology, 2nd ed.

• 1996: A=B (with Doron Zeilberger and Marko Petkovšek)

• 1998: The Number of Independent Sets in a Grid Graph (SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics Vol. 11, no. 1: pp. 54 – 60) (with Neil J. Calkin)

• 2000: Recounting the Rationals (Amer. Math. Monthly Vol. 107, no. 4: pp. 360 – 363) (with Neil J. Calkin)