# Dan Archdeacon

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American mathematician (1954–2015)

**Dan Steven Archdeacon** (1954–2015) was an American [graph theorist](/source/Graph_theory) specializing in [topological graph theory](/source/Topological_graph_theory),[1][2] who served for many years as a professor of mathematics and statistics at the [University of Vermont](/source/University_of_Vermont).[3]

Archdeacon was born on May 11, 1954, in [Dayton, Ohio](/source/Dayton%2C_Ohio), and grew up in [Centerville, Ohio](/source/Centerville%2C_Ohio). He did his undergraduate studies at [Earlham College](/source/Earlham_College), graduating in 1975.[1] He completed his Ph.D. in 1980 from [Ohio State University](/source/Ohio_State_University), under the supervision of Henry Hatfield Glover, with a dissertation proving an analogue of [Kuratowski's theorem](/source/Kuratowski's_theorem) for the [projective plane](/source/Projective_plane).[4] He took a position at the University of Vermont in 1982, joining fellow graph theorist and Ohio State graduate [Jeff Dinitz](/source/Jeff_Dinitz), after previously working as an instructor at the [University of Kansas](/source/University_of_Kansas).[1][3] He died of cancer on February 18, 2015, in [Burlington, Vermont](/source/Burlington%2C_Vermont).[1]

In 2003–2004, the University of Vermont named him as University Scholar.[2][3] A special issue of the *[Australasian Journal of Combinatorics](/source/Australasian_Journal_of_Combinatorics)* was published in his honor in 2017.[1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ajc_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ajc_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-ajc_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-ajc_1-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-ajc_1-4) Bonnington, C. Paul; [Dinitz, Jeff](/source/Jeff_Dinitz); Širáň, Jozef (2017), ["Special issue in honour of Dan S. Archdeacon: guest editorial"](https://ajc.maths.uq.edu.au/pdf/67/ajc_v67_p065.pdf) (PDF), *[Australasian Journal of Combinatorics](/source/Australasian_Journal_of_Combinatorics)*, **67**: 65–76, [MR](/source/MR_(identifier)) [3607813](https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3607813)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-amc_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-amc_2-1) Bokal, Drago; [Mohar, Bojan](/source/Bojan_Mohar); Širáň, Jozef (2017), ["Dan Archdeacon (11 May 1954 to 18 February 2015)"](http://amc-journal.eu/index.php/amc/article/view/1106/965), News and Photos, *Ars Mathematica Contemporanea*, **12** (1), [MR](/source/MR_(identifier)) [3647300](https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3647300)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-uvm_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-uvm_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-uvm_3-2) ["Mathematics Professor Dan Archdeacon Dies After 33-Year Career at UVM"](http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Page=news&&storyID=20290), *University Communications*, University of Vermont, February 20, 2015, retrieved 2017-08-03

1. **[^](#cite_ref-mgp_4-0)** [Dan Archdeacon](https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=9972) at the [Mathematics Genealogy Project](/source/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project)

## External links

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