Talk:Jack Edmonds
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Copyright concern
editThe following paragraph is a possible copyright infringement:
Jack Edmonds did his undergraduate work at the George Washington University. He is one of the pioneers featured in the volume History of Mathematical Programming: A Collection of Personal Reminiscences. He designed toys and games with expectations of monetary rewards, which unfortunately did not materialize. A stint as a copy boy at the Washington Post found him at the night desk during President Eisenhower's heart attack in 1955. Mathematics, however, survived as his overriding interest. Fascinated by the study of polytopes by the Canadian Mathematician H. S. M. Coxeter, Edmonds' master thesis at the University of Maryland (1959) addressed the problem of embedding graphs into surfaces.
See http://nvl.nist.gov/pub/nistpubs/sp958-lide/140-144.pdf page 142, lower right. (This seems to correspond to an article in some paper, unfortunately I don't know which).
Affiliation
editI don't think Jack Edmonds is at Waterloo any longer; a brief search did not clear things up. Parudox 23:42, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
At the LL60 conference in Budapest in August 2008 he gave his affiliation as Paris_VI_University. Trious (talk) 22:16, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
I've made a new stub article at Jack Edmonds/Temp. It needs improvement, but it's better than the copyright violation page. Parudox 05:44, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
Son?
editI removed the following sentence from the article:
- "His son, Jeff Edmonds, is a Professor of Computer Science at York University, who himself has a prominent career in Theoretical Computer Science."
No Edmonds is lists at the list of staff in Computer Science at York, and nor can I find him in the Staff Directory of the whole university. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 01:09, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Look at [1]Zmoboros (talk) 04:47, 6 June 2008 (UTC).
- I see. I confused York University in Canada with the University of York in England. Terribly sorry about that. I'll put the sentence back in, except for the "prominent career" bit which could use some justification. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 10:52, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Pollution
editJack: China is the biggest polluter:
Which country pollute the most per capita? China CO2 Emissions per Capita
- Country CO2 Emissions per capita (tons)
1 China 7.38 2 United States 15.52 3 India 1.91 4 Russia 11.44 94 more rows 2601:14D:8700:C3B0:198A:B18F:1D79:6C8C (talk) 15:19, 12 November 2022 (UTC)