Neil Robertson Scientist

George Neil Robertson (born 1938) is a mathematician working mainly in topological graph theory, currently a distinguished professor emeritus at the Ohio State University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1969 at the University of Waterloo under his doctoral advisor William Tutte. According to the criteria of the Erdős Number Project, Robertson has an Erdős number of 3, but it can be lowered to 2 if an obituary he coauthored with Arthur M. Hobbs is counted.

Personal facts

Birth dateJanuary 01, 1938
Birth place
Canada
Nationality
United States
Residence
Canada , United States
Education
University of Waterloo
Known for
Robertson–Seymour theorem

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Scientist

awards
George Pólya Prize
doctoral advisor
doctoral student
Paul A. Catlin
Field of study
Mathematician

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