Torrence Parsons

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Torrence Douglas Parsons (1941–1987) was an American mathematician.

He worked mainly in graph theory, and is known for introducing a graph-theoretic view of pursuit-evasion problems (Parsons 1976, 1978). He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1966 under the supervision of Albert W. Tucker.[1]

[edit] Selected publications

  • Parsons, T. D. (1976). "Pursuit-evasion in a graph". Theory and Applications of Graphs: 426–441, Springer-Verlag. 
  • Parsons, T.D. (1978). "The search number of a connected graph". Proc. 10th Southeastern Conf. Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing: 549–554. 

[edit] References

  1. ^ Torrence Parsons at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

[edit] Further reading

Memorial articles in

  • Journal of Graph Theory vol. 12
  • Discrete Mathematics vol. 78
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