Alan J Hoffman

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Nationality American Fields Mathematics Education Columbia University		Name Alan Hoffman Alma mater Columbia University Doctoral advisor Edgar Lorch

Born May 30, 1924 (age 99) New York City ( 1924-05-30 ) Institutions Thomas J. Watson Research CenterCity University of New York Thesis On the Foundations of Inversion Geometry (1950) Doctoral students Michael DoobRefael HassinThomas McCormick Notable awards John von Neumann Theory Prize Books Selected Papers of Alan Hoffman with Commentary

Alan Jerome Hoffman (born May 30, 1924) is an American mathematician and IBM Fellow emeritus, T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM, in Yorktown Heights, New York. He is the founding editor of the journal Linear Algebra and its Applications, and holds several patents. He has contributed to combinatorial optimization and the eigenvalue theory of graphs. Hoffman and Robert Singleton constructed the Hoffman–Singleton graph, which is the unique Moore graph of degree 7 and diameter 2.

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Alan Hoffman is a recipient of many awards.

IBM Fellow, 1978–

Member, National Academy of Sciences, 1982–

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1987–

D. Sc. (Hon.) Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 1986

1992 John von Neumann Theory Prize with Philip Wolfe

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Hoffman A. J. & Jacobs W. (1954) Smooth patterns of production. in Management Science, 1(1): 86-91.

Hoffman A. J. & Wolfe P. (1985) History. Lawler E. L., Lenstra J. K., Rimmooy Kan A. H. G., & Shmoys D. B., eds. in The Traveling Salesman Problem. John Wiley & Sons: New York.

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