About S. Louis Hakimi
Lived 1932 – 2006 (aged 73–74). S. Louis Hakimi was an American and Iranian mathematician and university teacher.
Seifollah Louis Hakimi (1932–June 23, 2006) was an Iranian-American mathematician born in Iran, a professor emeritus at Northwestern University, where he chaired the department of electrical engineering from 1973 to 1978. He was chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Davis, from 1986 to 1996. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1959, under the supervision of Mac Van Valkenburg. He has over 100 academic descendants, most of them via his student Narsingh Deo.
He is known for characterizing the degree sequences of undirected graphs, for formulating the Steiner tree problem on networks, and for his work on facility location problems on networks.
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Who was S. Louis Hakimi?
Iranian–American mathematician (1932–2006)
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S. Louis Hakimi was born in 1932 in Mashhad.
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S. Louis Hakimi died on 23 June 2006 in El Macero.
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S. Louis Hakimi was a mathematician and university teacher.
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S. Louis Hakimi was American and Iranian.
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