Fan Chung

Fan Rong K Chung Graham (born 1949, known professionally as Fan Chung, is a Taiwanese-born mathematician who works mainly in the areas of spectral graph theory[?] and extremal graph theory[?]. (See graph theory.) She is currently the Akamai Professor in Internet Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in the United States.

She was born in Kaoshiong[?], in Taiwan.

She is married to the mathematician Ronald Graham, being his second wife. The couple were close friends of the mathematician Paul Erdős (1913 - 1996).

Her publications include two books:

• Erdös on Graphs: His Legacy of Unsolved Problems (with Ron Graham), A K Peters, Ltd., 1998, ISBN 1-56881-079-2
• Spectral Graph Theory (CBMS Regional Conference Series in Mathematics, No. 92), American Mathematical Society, 1997, ISBN 0-8218-0315-8

External links

• Fan Chung's UCSD homepage: http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~fan/
• Biography of Fan Chung from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive at the University of St Andrews: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Chung