David Eppstein
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”, DIMACS Ser. Discrete Math. and Theoretical Computer Science 6; since Yao coauthored with Fan Chung Graham, Ronald Graham, Stanisław Ulam (http://planetmath.org/StanislawUlam) and Erdős “Minimal decompositions of two graphs into pairwise isomorphic subgraphs
” in Proceedings of the Tenth Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory
and Computing in 1979, Eppstein has Erdős number (http://planetmath.org/ErdHosNumber) 2.
These days he edits Wikipedia articles on mathematical topics.
| Title | David Eppstein |
|---|---|
| Canonical name | DavidEppstein |
| Date of creation | 2013-03-22 16:47:28 |
| Last modified on | 2013-03-22 16:47:28 |
| Owner | PrimeFan (13766) |
| Last modified by | PrimeFan (13766) |
| Numerical id | 6 |
| Author | PrimeFan (13766) |
| Entry type | Biography |
| Classification | msc 01A61 |
| Classification | msc 01A60 |
| Classification | msc 01A65 |