22 Facts About Frank Harary

Frank Harary was an American mathematician, who specialized in graph theory.

Frank Harary was widely recognized as one of the "fathers" of modern graph theory.

Frank Harary broadened the reach of this field to include physics, psychology, sociology, and even anthropology.

Gifted with a keen sense of humor, Frank Harary challenged and entertained audiences at all levels of mathematical sophistication.

Frank Harary was born in New York City, the oldest child to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria and Russia.

Frank Harary earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Brooklyn College in 1941 and 1945 respectively and his Ph.

Frank Harary began his teaching career at the University of Michigan in 1953 where he was first an assistant professor, then in 1959 associate professor and in 1964 was appointed as a professor of mathematics, a position he held until 1986.

Frank Harary was one of the founders of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory and the Journal of Graph Theory.

In 1949 Frank Harary published On the algebraic structure of knots.

Shortly after this publication in 1953 Frank Harary published his first book On the number of Husimi trees.

From 1973 to 2007 Frank Harary jointly wrote five more books, each in the field of graph theory.

Frank Harary recorded that he lectured in 166 different cities around the United States and some 274 cities in over 80 different countries.

Frank Harary was particularly proud that he had given lectures in cities around the world beginning with every letter of the alphabet, even including "X" when he traveled to Xanten, Germany.

Frank Harary played a curious role in the award-winning film Good Will Hunting.

Frank Harary did not take his retirement lightly however; following his retirement Frank Harary was appointed as a Distinguished Professor of Computer Sciences at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.

Frank Harary held this position until his death in 2005.

Frank Harary died at Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Frank Harary lectured extensively and kept alphabetical lists of the cities where he spoke.

Frank Harary quickly began promoting inquiry based learning through his texts, apparent by his reference to the tradition of the Moore method.

Frank Harary made many unique contributions to graph theory as he explored more and more different fields of study and successfully attempted to relate them to graph theory.

Some other mathematical fields that Frank Harary directly relates to graph theory in his book begin to appear around chapter 13, these topics include linear algebra, and abstract algebra.

Frank Harary joined with Ian Ross to improve on Festinger's clique detection.