DavidEppstein 2007-03-04 17:22:23 2007-03-05 17:13:22 Biography % this is the default PlanetMath preamble. as your knowledge % of TeX increases, you will probably want to edit this, but % it should be fine as is for beginners. % almost certainly you want these \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} % used for TeXing text within eps files %\usepackage{psfrag} % need this for including graphics (\includegraphics) %\usepackage{graphicx} % for neatly defining theorems and propositions %\usepackage{amsthm} % making logically defined graphics %\usepackage{xypic} % there are many more packages, add them here as you need them % define commands here {\em David Eppstein} (1963 - ) American computer programmer of English birth. After earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Stanford in 1984 and a Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia university in 1989, Eppstein went on to work at the Palo Alto Research Center and teach computing at the University of California-Irvine. In 1991, he coauthored with Frances Yao and others a paper on horizon theorems for lines and polygons in ``Discrete and Computational Geometry: Papers from the DIMACS Special Year'', {\it DIMACS Ser. Discrete Math. and Theoretical Computer Science} {\bf 6}; since Yao coauthored with Fan Chung Graham, Ronald Graham, \PMlinkname{Stanis\l{}aw Ulam}{StanislawUlam} and Erd\H{o}s ``Minimal decompositions of two graphs into pairwise isomorphic subgraphs'' in {\it Proceedings of the Tenth Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing } in 1979, Eppstein has \PMlinkname{Erd\H{o}s number}{ErdHosNumber} 2. These days he edits Wikipedia articles on mathematical topics.