John Adrian Bondy (born 1944 in London) is a retired English mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics and graph theory.
John Adrian Bondy | |
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| Born | 1944 London, England |
| Nationality | British, Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Known for | Bondy's theorem Bondy–Chvátal theorem |
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| Thesis | Some uniqueness theorems in graph theory (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dominic Welsh[1] |
Career
Bondy received his Ph.D. in graph theory from the University of Oxford in 1969. His advisor was Dominic Welsh.[1] Between 1969 and 1994, Bondy was Professor of Graph Theory at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and then, until his retirement, at Université Lyon 1 in France.[2] From 1976, he was managing editor, and, between 1979 and 2004, co-editor-in-chief (together with U. S. R. Murty) of Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B.[3] Throughout his career, Bondy has (co-)authored over 100 publications[2][4] with 51 co-authors,[5] including the widely influential textbook Graph Theory with Applications (with U. S. R. Murty), and supervised 12 Ph.D. students.[1] His Erdős number is 1.[6]
Bondy was dismissed from his tenured position at the University of Waterloo in 1995, after 25 years in which he had been a major contributor to the renown of the University's Department of Combinatorics and Optimization.[7] The reasons for his dismissal centered on "Bondy's acceptance of a teaching post in France, and the acceptability of someone who is on UW's faculty payroll holding a full-time job elsewhere."[8] Protesting the decision, Paul Erdős returned his honorary doctorate to the University of Waterloo,[9] and Vašek Chvátal resigned from his position of Adjunct Professor at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization.[10]
Personal life
Bondy has a passion for photography, having taken pictures since his childhood. In the 1980s, he regularly exhibited his work, most notably at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in Kitchener, Ontario. In 2010, Bondy founded the non-profit association Mind's Eye[11] with the aim "to reflect upon the conceptual links between mathematics and photography."[12] In 2012, he opened a photo gallery with the same name on the Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris. Between 2012 and 2022, Mind's Eye / Galerie Adrian Bondy has hosted 42 exhibitions with works of 27 artists, including John Claridge and Jean Dréville.[13]
Selected publications
- Bondy, J. A.; Chvátal, V. (1976), "A method in graph theory", Discrete Mathematics, 15 (2): 111–135, doi:10.1016/0012-365X(76)90078-9, MR 0414429, Zbl 0331.05138.
- Bondy, J. A.; Murty, U. S. R. (1976), Graph Theory with Applications, North-Holland, MR 0411988, Zbl 1226.05083, archived from the original on 16 June 2012, retrieved 28 June 2012.
- Bondy, J. A.; Murty, U. S. R. (2008), Graph Theory, Springer, MR 2368647, Zbl 1134.05001.
- Bondy, J. A. (1971), "Pancyclic graphs I", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 11 (1): 80–84, doi:10.1016/0095-8956(71)90016-5, MR 0285424, Zbl 0183.52301.
- Bondy, J. A.; Hemminger, R. L. (1977), "Graph reconstruction – a survey", Journal of Graph Theory, 1 (3): 227–268, doi:10.1002/jgt.3190010306, MR 0480189, Zbl 0375.05040.
See also
Notes
References
- J. Adrian (John) Bondy at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- J. Adrian Bondy at zbMATH
- "Bondy, John Adrian". Mathematical Reviews. American Mathematical Society. 2022. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- Cunningham, Bill; Haxell, Penny; Richter, Bruce; Wormald, Nick; Thomason, Andrew (2004), "Dedication to Adrian Bondy and U.S.R. Murty", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 90 (1): 1, doi:10.1016/j.jctb.2003.10.001
- Bondy, J. A.; Erdős, P. (1973), "Ramsey numbers for cycles in graphs", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 14 (1): 46–54, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.210.6443, doi:10.1016/S0095-8956(73)80005-X.