| RefNo | EC/2022/41 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Seymour, Paul: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Date | 21 April 2022 |
| Description | Certificate endorsing election of Paul Seymour as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Includes personal details of the elected Fellow, citation giving the reasons for election, and names of proposers. Signed by the Executive Director of the Royal Society, Julie Maxton. |
| Citation | Paul Seymour is the leading graph theorist worldwide. His vast and definitive contributions to structural graph theory have rewritten the textbooks of the area. He has resolved a large number of notorious problems, and brought great clarity to the field. Particularly worthy of mention are his series of 23 articles with Neil Robertson on graph minors, and his much cited collaborative proof of the Strong Perfect Graph Theorem, as conjectured by Berge 40 years earlier. His work includes significant contributions to matroid theory, to percolation theory, and a solution to the next step of the Hadwiger Conjecture from 1943 (an extension of the four-colour theorem). He was an invited/plenary lecturer at the International Congresses of Mathematicians in 1986/1994, and has been awarded numerous honours including the Ostrowski Prize, the Fulkerson Prize of the American Mathematical Society (four times), and the Polya prize of SIAM (twice). |
| Extent | 4p |
| Format | Computer printout |
| PhysicalDescription | A4 papers |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
| AccessConditions | Election certificates are subject to 50 year closure period from date of election. Details of proposers and date certificate was first submitted for candidacy are kept confidential until the 50 year closure period has elapsed. |