Yousef Alavi is a mathematician who specializes in combinatorics and graph theory. He was a professor at Western Michigan University. His Erdős number is 1. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics that studies collections (usually finite) of objects that satisfy specified criteria. ... A pictorial representation of a graph In mathematics and computer science, graph theory is the study of graphs, mathematical structures used to model pairwise relations between objects from a certain collection. ... A professor giving a lecture The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... Western Michigan University (abbr. ... The ErdÅ‘s number, honouring the late Hungarian mathematician Paul ErdÅ‘s, one of the most prolific writers of mathematical papers, is a way of describing the collaborative distance, in regard to mathematical papers, between an author and ErdÅ‘s. ...
The standard practice for many years was for the chair of the Michigan Section to send an annual letter to the membership with announcements of the year's activities and programs.
At the 1974 summer meeting of the Section's Executive Committee, YousefAlavi, chair of the Section, mentioned that some other sections had newsletters, and he wished that the Michigan Section would have one also.
The Newsletter was an instant success and through the years has exceeded many times over the modest expectations that YousefAlavi and Delia Koo had expressed in the beginning.
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