John H. Smith (mathematician)

John Howard Smith is an American mathematician, a retired professor of mathematics at Boston College.[1] He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963, under the supervision of Kenkichi Iwasawa.[1][2] In voting theory, he is known for the Smith set, the smallest nonempty set of candidates such that, in every pairwise matchup between a member and a non-member, the member is the winner, and for the Smith criterion, a property of certain election systems in which the winner is guaranteed to belong to the Smith set.[3] He has also made contributions to spectral graph theory[4] and additive number theory.[5]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Math faculty listing, Boston College, retrieved 2011-03-28.
  2. ↑ John Howard Smith at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  3. ↑ Smith, J.H. (1973), "Aggregation of Preferences with Variable Electorates", Econometrica 41 (6): 1027–1041, doi:10.2307/1914033, JSTOR 1914033.
  4. ↑ Smith, John H. (1970), "Some properties of the spectrum of a graph", Combinatorial Structures and their Applications (Proc. Calgary Internat. Conf., Calgary, Alta., 1969), New York: Gordon and Breach, pp. 403–406, MR 0266799.
  5. ↑ Fein, Burton; Gordon, Basil; Smith, John H. (1971), "On the representation of −1 as a sum of two squares in an algebraic number field", Journal of Number Theory 3: 310–315, doi:10.1016/0022-314X(71)90005-9, MR 0319940.