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Torrence Parsons

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Torrence Parsons
Born
Torrence Douglas Parsons

(1941-03-07)7 March 1941
Died2 April 1987(1987-04-02) (aged 46)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPrinceton University (PhD)
Known forintroducing a graph-theoretic view of pursuit–evasion problems
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician
Doctoral advisorAlbert W. Tucker
Doctoral studentsTomaž Pisanski

Torrence Douglas Parsons (7 March 1941 – 2 April 1987) was an American mathematician.

He worked mainly in graph theory, and is known for introducing a graph-theoretic view of pursuit–evasion problems (Parsons 1976, 1978). He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1966 under the supervision of Albert W. Tucker.[1]

Selected publications

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  • Parsons, T. D. (1976). "Pursuit–evasion in a graph". Theory and Applications of Graphs. Springer-Verlag. pp. 426–441.
  • Parsons, T.D. (1978). "The search number of a connected graph". Proc. 10th Southeastern Conf. Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing. pp. 549–554.

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Further reading

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Memorial articles in

  • Journal of Graph Theory vol. 12
  • Discrete Mathematics vol. 78