Alan J. Hoffman

Alan Hoffman
Born(1924-05-30)May 30, 1924[1]
New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedJanuary 18, 2021(2021-01-18) (aged 96)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia University
AwardsJohn von Neumann Theory Prize (1992)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsThomas J. Watson Research Center
City University of New York
ThesisOn the Foundations of Inversion Geometry (1950)
Doctoral advisorEdgar Lorch

Alan Jerome Hoffman (May 30, 1924 – January 18, 2021) was an American mathematician. He was the founding editor of the journal Linear Algebra and its Applications. He helped create the Hoffman–Singleton graph.[2]

Hoffman died on January 18, 2021 at the age of 96.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Personal Page, IBM. "Alan Hoffman". IBM Research. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
  2. ↑ A.E. Brouwer & J.H. van Lint, Strongly regular graphs and partial geometries, in: Enumeration and Design - Proc. Silver Jubilee Conf. on Combinatorics, Waterloo, 1982, D.M. Jackson & S.A. Vanstone (eds.) Academic Press, Toronto (1984) 108.
  3. ↑ Biography of Alan J. Hoffman
  4. ↑ Cameron Counts: Alan Hoffman