Henry O. Pollak

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Henry Otto Pollak (born December 13, 1927) is an Austrian-American mathematician. He is known for his contributions to information theory, and with Ronald Graham is the namesake of the Graham–Pollak theorem in graph theory.

Born in

Pollak then joined Bell Labs (1951), where he in the early 1960s became director of the Mathematics and Statistics Research Center. He authored near forty papers, many of these with David Slepian and Henry Landau on analysis, function theory, probability theory, and mathematics education. He has applied mathematics to solve problems in physics and networks, communication theory, discrete systems, statistics and data analysis, and economic analysis. Pollak also holds patents in the area of signaling.^[2] He has held teaching positions in the mathematics department at Columbia University.

Awards

• Earle Raymond Hedrick lecturer (1973)
• Mathematical Association of America chair of New Jersey section (1958–59), governor (1961–63) and president (1975–76).^[3]
• honorary Sc.D. at Bowdoin College (1977)^[4]
• honorary doctorate from
  Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
  (1981)
• Dan Christie lecture on On the Addressing Problem in Loop Switching, or, How to Embed an Arbitrary Graph in a Squashed Cube at Bowdoin College (1983)
• Mathematical Association of America Meritorious Service Award (1990)
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Lifetime Achievement Award (2010)
• Mathematical Association of America Mary P. Dolciani Award in 2020.^[5]

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