Ron Graham has died

Re:Ron Graham has died by rough-sea on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:11PM (#23766280)

In 2002, I was an undergraduate in mathematics at UCSD. I had taken Fan Chung's graph theory class and was captivated. I asked her if I could help with any projects, said I knew perl and python. She handed me off to a graduate student who ask me to build a web crawler. They wanted to analyze the www graph. I was introduced to Ron in the hallway by Fan. I knew of him - he was one of the most famous professors in the department. I was honored to shake his hand. I never made much progress on the www crawler. I regretted my laziness later in my subpar grad school.

That's all. Just a small memory from a random person.

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Re:Ron Graham has died by icotyl on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:34PM (#23766381)

I was there around the same time and I took a discrete math course he taught.

I wasn't a math major and had no idea who he was, but I remember some students mentioning that he was a well-regarded mathematician. He was a good teacher as well.

Fan, who was also Ron's wife, has a webpage about him: http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~fan/ron/

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