Mathematician:Herbert Saul Wilf

Mathematician

American mathematician who specializes in combinatorics and graph theory.

He has made available certain of his works for free download.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 13 June 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Died: 7 January 2012 in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania

Theorems and Definitions

• Calkin-Wilf Tree (with Neil Calkin)
• Szekeres-Wilf Number (with George Szekeres)

Results named for Herbert Saul Wilf can be found here.

Publications

• 1962: Mathematics for the Physical Sciences
• 1968: An Inequality for the Chromatic Number of a Graph (with George Szekeres)
• 1986: Algorithms and Complexity
• 1990: generatingfunctionology
• 1996: A=B (with Doron Zeilberger and Marko Petkovšek)