Daniel Kleitman
Daniel J. Kleitman (born October 4, 1934)[1][2][3] is an American mathematician and professor of applied mathematics at MIT. His research interests include combinatorics, graph theory, genomics, and operations research.
Biography
Kleitman was born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York,[1] the younger of Bertha and Milton Kleitman's two sons. His father was a lawyer who after WWII became a commodities trader and investor. In 1942 the family moved to Morristown, New Jersey,[4] and he graduated from Morristown High School in 1950.[1]
Kleitman then attended Cornell University, from which he graduated in 1954,[1] and received his PhD in Physics from Harvard University in 1958 under Nobel Laureates Julian Schwinger and Roy Glauber.[5] He is the "k" in G. W. Peck, a pseudonym for a group of six mathematicians that includes Kleitman. Formerly a physics professor at Brandeis University,[6] Kleitman was encouraged by Paul Erdős to change his field of study to mathematics. Perhaps humorously, Erdős once asked him, "Why are you only a physicist?"[1]
Kleitman joined the applied mathematics faculty at MIT in 1966, and was promoted to professor in 1969.[6]
Kleitman coauthored at least six papers with Erdős, giving him an Erdős number of 1.
He was a math advisor and extra for the film Good Will Hunting.[7] Since Minnie Driver, who appeared in Good Will Hunting, also appeared in Sleepers with Kevin Bacon, Kleitman has a Bacon number of 2. Adding the two numbers results in an Erdős–Bacon number of 3, which is a tie with Bruce Reznick for the lowest number anyone has.[8]
In 1973 Kleitman was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[9]
In 2024 Kleitman was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.[10]
Personal life
On July 26, 1964 Kleitman married Sharon Ruth Alexander. They have three children.[1]
Selected publications
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See also
References
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- ↑ a b c d e f Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1". (article available on Douglas West's web page, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign).
- ↑ "Kleitman, Daniel J.," in: Who's Who in Frontier Science and Technology, 1, 1984, p. 396.
- ↑ Kleitman, Daniel J in American Men of Science, vol. 4, 2009
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- ↑ Daniel J. Kleitman, "My Career in the Movies,", Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 45, 502 (April 1998)
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External links
- Kleitman's homepage
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- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- Combinatorialists
- American operations researchers
- Harvard University alumni
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
- Brandeis University faculty
- 1934 births
- Living people
- Educators from New York City
- Mathematicians from New Jersey
- Mathematicians from New York (state)
- Morristown High School (Morristown, New Jersey) alumni
- People from Morristown, New Jersey
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences