Cecil C. Rousseau

American mathematician
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IntroAmerican mathematician
PlacesUnited States of America
isMathematician
Work fieldMathematics
Gender
Male
Birth13 January 1938
Age86 years
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Biography

Cecil Clyde Rousseau (born January 13, 1938 in Philadelphia) is a mathematician and author who specializes in graph theory and combinatorics. He is a professor emeritus at The University of Memphis and former chair of the USAMO.
Rousseau received his Ph.D. in 1968 from Texas A&M University.
He has an Erdős number of 1, and is Erdős' 5th most common co-author, with 35 joint papers.
In 2012, Rousseau received the Paul Erdős Award from the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions.
To his students and colleagues, he's known affectionately as C²R.

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