| R. C. Read | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 19 1924 Croydon, England |
| Residence | Canada |
| Citizenship | Canadian |
| Fields | Graph theory |
| Institutions | University of Waterloo |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge and University of London |
Ronald C. Read is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has published many books [1] and papers, primarily on graph isomorphism and chromatic numbers. A majority of his later work was done in Waterloo. Read received his Ph.D. (1959) in graph theory from the University of London.[2]
Ronald Read served in the Royal Navy during World War 11, then completed a degree in mathematics at the University of Cambridge before joining the University College of the West Indies in Jamaica as the second founding member of the Mathematics Department there. In 1970 he moved his family to Canada to take up a post as Professor of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
He is an accomplished musician and plays many instruments including violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, guitar, lute, and many early music instruments, some of which he has also built. He has diplomas in Theory and in Composition from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada, and has composed three works for orchestra and a several pieces for smaller groups. [3]