What is Alan J. Hoffman?
{{Infobox scientist | name = Alan Hoffman | image = <!--(as myimage.jpg, no 'File:')--> | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|5|30|mf=y}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-ajh |title=Alan Hoffman |last=Personal Page |first=IBM |publisher=IBM Research |access-date=2011-11-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314064335/https://researcher.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-ajh |archive-date=2012-03-14 }}</ref> | birth_place = [[New York City]], New York, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|1|18|1924|5|30|mf=y}} | death_place = | nationality = [[United States|American]] | fields = [[Mathematics]] | workplaces = [[Thomas J. Watson Research Center]]<br>[[City University of New York]] | alma_mater = [[Columbia University]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Edgar Lorch]] | doctoral_students = | thesis_title = On the Foundations of Inversion Geometry | thesis_year = 1950 | known_for = | awards = [[John von Neumann Theory Prize]] <small>(1992)</small> }} '''Alan Jerome Hoffman''' (May 30, 1924 – January 18, 2021) was an American mathematician. He was the founding editor of the journal ''Linear Algebra and its Applications''. He helped create the [[Hoffman–Singleton graph]].<ref>A.E. Brouwer & J.H. van Lint, Strongly regular graphs and partial geometries, in: Enumeration and Design - Proc. Silver Jubilee Conf. on Combinatorics, Waterloo, 1982, D.M. Jackson & S.A. Vanstone (eds.) Academic Press, Toronto (1984) 108.</ref> Hoffman died on January 18, 2021 at the age of 96.<ref>[https://www.informs.org/content/view/full/268792 Biography of Alan J. Hoffman]</ref><ref>[https://cameroncounts.wordpress.com/2021/01/22/alan-hoffman/ Cameron Counts: Alan Hoffman]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoffman, Alan J.}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:Ameri