Ferran Hurtado

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Hurtado and the second or maternal family name is Díaz.
Ferran Hurtado
Born(1951-05-08)8 May 1951
Valencia, Spain
Died2 October 2014(2014-10-02) (aged 63)
Barcelona, Spain [1]
Alma materPolytechnic University of Catalonia
Scientific career
FieldsDiscrete Mathematics, Computer Science
InstitutionsPolytechnic University of Catalonia
Thesis Problemas geométricos de visibilidad  (1993)
Doctoral advisorOriol Serra Albó

Ferran Hurtado Díaz (8 May 1951 – 2 October 2014)[2] was a Spanish mathematician and computer scientist known for his research in computational geometry.

Life

Hurtado was born on 8 May 1951 in Valencia, Spain.[1] He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona in 1993 under the supervision of Oriol Serra Albó; his dissertation was Problemas geométricos de visibilidad [Geometric problems of visibility].[3] It won the Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado UPC in 1995.[4]

He became a professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and died on 2 October 2014 in Barcelona.[2]

Contributions

Hurtado was a pioneer of Spanish computational geometry, and of connections between computational geometry and combinatorics. He is known, not only for his own research contributions to those subjects, but also for the questions he posed for others to solve. The topics of his research included flip graphs of polygon triangulations, Voronoi diagrams, visibility, simple polygons with given points as vertices, empty convex polygons in point sets, geometric graph theory, and problems on colored sets of points.[4][5][6]

Recognition

In 2018, the journal Computational Geometry published a special issue in Hurtado's memory.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Ferran Hurtado". El árbol de las matemàticas (in Spanish). RSME. 1 September 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b "FERRAN HURTADO DÍAZ : Fallecimiento". La Vanguardia (in Catalan). 3 October 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  3. ^ Ferran Hurtado at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ a b Urrutia, Jorge (2016). "The Mathematics of Ferran Hurtado: A Brief Survey". In Akiyama, Jin; Ito, Hiro; Sakai, Toshinori; Uno, Yushi (eds.). Discrete and Computational Geometry and Graphs 18th Japan Conference, JCDCGG 2015, Kyoto, Japan, September 14-16, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 9943. Springer. pp. 277–292. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-48532-4_25.
  5. ^ a b Bose, Prosenjit; Ramos, Pedro (March 2018). "Editorial: Special issue in memory of Dr. Ferran Hurtado". Computational Geometry. 68: 1. doi:10.1016/j.comgeo.2017.10.001.
  6. ^ Ábrego, Bernardo; Dumitrescu, Adrian; Fernández, Silvia; Tóth, Csaba D. (June 2015). "Computational geometry column 61". SIGACT News. 46 (2): 65–77. arXiv:cs/0001025. doi:10.1145/2789149.2789162. S2CID 52838691.