Canadian mathematician and computer scientist
Ivan Rival (March 15, 1947 – January 22, 2002 in Ottawa , Ontario , Canada) was a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist , a professor of mathematics at the University of Calgary and of computer science at the University of Ottawa .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Rival's Ph.D. thesis concerned lattice theory . After moving to Calgary he began to work more generally with partially ordered sets , and to study fixed point theorems for partially ordered structures. He was a frequent organizer of conferences in order theory , and in 1984 he founded the journal Order data structures , computational geometry , and graph drawing .[ 1]
Rival grew up in Hamilton, Ontario .[ 3] McMaster University in 1969, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba in 1974 under the supervision of George Gratzer.[ 1] [ 4] Robert Dilworth at Caltech and Rudolf Wille at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt , he took a faculty position at Calgary in 1975, and was promoted to full professor in 1981. In 1986, he moved to the University of Ottawa, where he became chair of the computer science department.[ 1]
Rival's doctoral students included Dwight Duffus ,[ 1] [ 4] Emory University . Duffus took over the editorship of Order after the retirement (as editor) of William T. Trotter , who took over the editorship from Rival.[ 5]
References
^ a b c d e Duffus, Dwight (2003), "Obituary: Ivan Rival", Order 20 (3): 173– 183, doi :10.1023/B:ORDE.0000026602.94442.32 S2CID 1484329 ^ Quackenbush, Bob (2005), "Ivan Rival 1947–2002" (PDF) , Algebra Universalis 53 (2– 3): 141– 142, doi :10.1007/s00012-005-1000-y , S2CID 120183614 ^ a b "Dr. Ivan Rival" , The Globe and Mail ^ a b Ivan Rival at the Mathematics Genealogy Project .^ Publisher web site for Order , retrieved 2010-09-10.
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