Daniel Kleitman
Daniel J. Kleitman (born October 4, 1934)[1] is a professor of applied mathematics at MIT. His research interests include combinatorics, graph theory, genomics, and operations research.
Biography
Kleitman was born in New York, New York in 1934. received his PhD in Physics from Harvard University in 1958 under Nobel Laureates Julian Schwinger and Roy Glauber.[2] He is the "k" in G. W. Peck, a pseudonym for a group of six mathematicians that includes Kleitman. Formerly a physics professor at Brandeis University,[3] Kleitman was encouraged by Paul Erdős to change his field of study to mathematics. Perhaps humorously, Erdős once asked him, "Why are you only a physicist?"[4]
Kleitman joined the applied mathematics faculty at MIT in 1966, and was promoted to professor in 1969.[3]
Kleitman coauthored at least six papers with Erdős, giving him an Erdős number of 1.
He was a math advisor and extra for the film Good Will Hunting.[5] Since Minnie Driver, who appeared in Good Will Hunting, also appeared in Sleepers with Kevin Bacon, Kleitman has a Bacon number of 2. Adding the two numbers results in an Erdős–Bacon number of 3, tied for lowest currently.[6][7]
Selected publications
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- with B. Rothschild and Joel H. Spencer: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.[8]
- with Gil Kalai: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- with Alex Coventry and Bonnie Berger: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
References
- ↑ Kleitman, Daniel J in American Men of Science, vol. 4, 2009
- ↑ Daniel Kleitman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- ↑ Daniel J. Kleitman, "My Career in the Movies,", Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 45, 502 (April 1998)
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- ↑ The 1976 publication The number of semigroups of order n listed 3 co-authors, one of whom is "Bruce R. Rothschild" but this is a typographical error for the correct "Bruce L. Rothschild".
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