Cecil C. Rousseau
Template:Short description Cecil Clyde Rousseau, Jr. (January 13, 1938 Philadelphia - April 10, 2020 Memphis)[1][2] was a mathematician and author who specialized in graph theory and combinatorics. He was a professor at The University of Memphis starting in 1970 until retiring in 2008, and was involved with USAMO in many capacities, including serving as chair.[3]
Rousseau received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1968 from Texas A&M University.[4]
He has an Erdős number of 1, and is Erdős' 5th most common co-author, with 35 joint papers.[5] He also frequently collaborated with Memphis faculty Ralph Faudree and Dick Schelp.
In 2012, Rousseau received the Paul Erdős Award from the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions.[6]
To his students and colleagues, he was known affectionately as C²R.
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