Kenneth Appel
Facts
26 properties- Instance of
- human
- Date of birth
- October 8, 1932
- Date of death
- April 19, 2013
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Dover
- Country of citizenship
- United States[10]
- Occupation
- mathematician, university teacher
- Employer
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States Army, Institute for Defense Analyses, University of New Hampshire[14][15][16][17]
- Field of work
- graph theory, four color theorem, mathematical logic[11][12][13]
- Educated at
- University of Michigan, Queens College[18][19]
- Notable work
- Every planar map is four colorable[21]
- Doctoral advisor
- Roger Lyndon[20]
- Doctoral student
- Weldon Earl Bliss, Everett Douglas Gibson, Sister Jo Ann Fellin, Zhu-Xin Hu, John Allen Koch
- Cause of death
- esophageal cancer
- Academic thesis
- Two Investigations on the Borderline of Logic and Algebra
- Birth name
- Kenneth Ira Appel
- Family name
- Appel
- Given name
- Kenneth
- Maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- Manner of death
- natural causes
- Member of
- American Mathematical Society[24]
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- Place of burial
- Pine Hill Cemetery[7]
- Residence
- New Hampshire
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- 000000008407201X
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- 109925911
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n84041622
- GND ID
- 13151332X
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Kenneth appel 1970.jpg ↗
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 123627954
- CANTIC ID
- 981061159160706706
- DBLP author ID
- 20/689
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- biography/Kenneth-Appel
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- kenneth-appel
- Find a Grave memorial ID
- 109680598
- Freebase ID
- /m/01t7rh
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- Geni.com profile ID
- 6000000000825422623
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- kenneth-ira-appel
- IdRef ID
- 032635443
- MR Author ID
- 26625
- MacTutor biography ID
- Appel
- Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
- 5059
- NUKAT ID
- n2011160679
- National Library of Korea ID
- KAC200803928
- Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
- 085047317
- SHARE Catalogue author ID
- 54071
- Treccani's Enciclopedia della Matematica ID
- appel
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- Yale LUX ID
- person/bc30a466-b011-4939-bff5-8f9643b9053a
- ZbMATH author ID
- appel.kenneth-i
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Summary
Kenneth Appel's place of birth was Brooklyn[1]. He was born on October 8, 1932[2]. He died in Dover[3]. He died on April 19, 2013[4]. He worked as a mathematician[5] and university teacher[6].
Body
Education
Educated at University of Michigan[18], a public research university[26], in United States[27], founded in 1817[28], headquartered in Ann Arbor[29] and Queens College[19], a university[30], in United States[31], founded in 1937[32].
Career and Affiliations
Fields of work include graph theory[11], an academic discipline[33]; four color theorem[12], a theorem[34]; and mathematical logic[13], a branch of mathematics[35]. Employers include University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign[14], a public research university[36], in United States[37], founded in 1867[38]; United States Army[15], an army[39], in United States[40], founded in 1775[41], headquartered in The Pentagon[42]; Institute for Defense Analyses[16], a research institute[43], in United States[44], founded in 1956[45]; and University of New Hampshire[17], a public research university[46], in United States[47], founded in 1866[48]. Doctoral students include Weldon Earl Bliss[49], Everett Douglas Gibson[50], Sister Jo Ann Fellin[51], Zhu-Xin Hu[52], and John Allen Koch[53].
Recognition
Awards received include Fellow of the American Mathematical Society[22], a fellowship award[54] and Fulkerson Prize[23], a science award[55], in United States[56], founded in 1979[57].
Personal Life
Children include Andrew Appel[8], a computer scientist[58], b. 1960[59], of United States[60], awarded the SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award[61], specialised in programming language[62] and Peter H. Appel[9], b. 1964[63], of United States[64].
Death and Burial
The cause of death was esophageal cancer[65].
FAQs
Where was Kenneth Appel born?
Born in Brooklyn[1].
Where did Kenneth Appel die?
Kenneth Appel passed away in Dover[3].
What did Kenneth Appel do for work?
Kenneth Appel worked as mathematician[5] and university teacher[6].
Where did Kenneth Appel go to school?
Kenneth Appel was educated at University of Michigan[18] and Queens College[19].
What awards did Kenneth Appel receive?
Honors received include Fellow of the American Mathematical Society[22] and Fulkerson Prize[23].