Herbert Wilf

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gptkbp:instanceOf Mathematician
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:University_of_Pennsylvania
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Pennsylvania
gptkbp:awards gptkb:G._David_Birkhoff_Prize_in_Applied_Mathematics
Fellow_of_the_American_Mathematical_Society
gptkbp:birthDate 1931-04-02
gptkbp:contribution gptkb:Wilf's_theorem
gptkb:Wilf–Zeilberger_algorithm
Combinatorial identities
Mathematical education
Research in computer science
Asymptotic analysis
Symbolic computation
Research in mathematical modeling
Research in algorithms
Research in statistical mechanics
Research in mathematical logic
Research in applied mathematics
Research in combinatorics
Research in mathematical physics
Research in operations research
Research in graph algorithms
Research in combinatorial optimization
Research in numerical analysis
Research in optimization
Research in combinatorial geometry
Research in computational complexity
Research in discrete structures
Research in theoretical computer science
Research in combinatorial algorithms and data structures
Polynomial sequences
Research in algorithmic combinatorics
Research in combinatorial enumeration
Research in combinatorial game theory
Research in combinatorial number theory
Research in combinatorial optimization problems
Research in combinatorial probability
Mathematical_software
Wilf's_conjecture
gptkbp:deathDate 2012-01-14
gptkbp:field Mathematics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Herbert Wilf
gptkbp:influenced Mathematics community
gptkbp:influencedBy Paul Erdős
gptkbp:knownFor Combinatorial mathematics
Algorithm analysis
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:Robert_Sedgewick
gptkb:Michael_O._Rabin
gptkbp:occupation Professor
gptkbp:publishes Generatingfunctionology
Algorithms and Data Structures
Mathematics_for_Computer_Science
gptkbp:researchInterest Number theory
Graph theory
Discrete mathematics
Combinatorial algorithms