John Adrian Bondy
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John Adrian Bondy, a dual British and Canadian citizen, was a professor of graph theory
at the University of Waterloo
, in Canada. He is a faculty member of Université Lyon 1, France. Bondy is known for his work on Bondy–Chvátal theorem together with Václav Chvátal
. His coauthors include Paul Erdős
.
Bondy received his Ph.D. in Graph theory
from University of Oxford
in 1969. Bondy has served as a managing editor and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B.
Bondy was dismissed from his tenured position at Waterloo in 1995, after 28 years in which he had been a major contributor to the renown of the University's Department of Combinatorics and Optimization. The reasons for dismissal centered on "Bondy's acceptance of a teaching post in France, and the acceptability of someone who is on UW's faculty payroll holding a full-time job elsewhere."
Paul Erdős, at the time the world's most renowned combinatorialist, returned his honorary doctorate to the University of Waterloo in protest.
Graph theory
In mathematics and computer science, graph theory is the study of graphs, mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects from a certain collection. A "graph" in this context refers to a collection of vertices or 'nodes' and a collection of edges that connect pairs of...
at the University of Waterloo
University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff...
, in Canada. He is a faculty member of Université Lyon 1, France. Bondy is known for his work on Bondy–Chvátal theorem together with Václav Chvátal
Václav Chvátal
Václav Chvátal is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where he holds theCanada Research Chair in Combinatorial Optimization....
. His coauthors include Paul Erdős
Paul Erdos
Paul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician. Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory...
.
Bondy received his Ph.D. in Graph theory
Graph theory
In mathematics and computer science, graph theory is the study of graphs, mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects from a certain collection. A "graph" in this context refers to a collection of vertices or 'nodes' and a collection of edges that connect pairs of...
from University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
in 1969. Bondy has served as a managing editor and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B.
Bondy was dismissed from his tenured position at Waterloo in 1995, after 28 years in which he had been a major contributor to the renown of the University's Department of Combinatorics and Optimization. The reasons for dismissal centered on "Bondy's acceptance of a teaching post in France, and the acceptability of someone who is on UW's faculty payroll holding a full-time job elsewhere."
Paul Erdős, at the time the world's most renowned combinatorialist, returned his honorary doctorate to the University of Waterloo in protest.
External links
- Critique of the dismissal by Jeffrey ShallitJeffrey ShallitJeffrey Outlaw Shallit is a computer scientist, number theorist, a noted advocate for civil liberties on the Internet, and a noted critic of intelligent design. He is married to Anna Lubiw, also a computer scientist....