Brian Alspach [SEP] date of birth
Brian Alspach
Brian Roger Alspach is a mathematician whose main research interest is in graph theory. Alspach has also studied the mathematics behind poker, and writes for "Poker Digest "and "Canadian Poker Player" magazines.
Biography.
Brian Alspach was born on May 29, 1938 in North Dakota. He attended the University of Washington from 1957 to 1961, receiving his B.A. in 1961. He taught at a junior high school for one year before beginning his graduate studies. In 1964 he received his master's degree
of graphs.
Brian Alspach coauthored an article with T.D. Parsons titled "A construction for vertex –transitive graph" published in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics (April, 1982).
Alspach's conjecture, posed by Alspach in 1981, concerns the characterization of disjoint cycle covers of complete graphs with prescribed cycle lengths.
With Heather Gavlas Jordon, in 2001, Alspach proved a special case, on the decomposition of complete graphs into cycles that all have the same length.
This is possible if and only if the