S. A. Choudum

Sheshayya Choudum
Born	1947, India
Citizenship	Indian
Fields	Graph Theory
Institutions	IIT Madras, University of Mumbai, Madurai Kamaraj University, University of Reading
Alma mater	IIT Madras
Doctoral advisor	K. R. Parthasarathy
Known for	Graph enumeration, Degree sequence, Graph coloring, Bivariegated graph

Sheshayya A. Choudum (born 1947) is a professor and a former chair of the department of mathematics, IIT Madras specializing in graph theory. He has often worked in chromatic number, degree sequence, graph enumeration and bivariegated graphs.

Choudum hails from Bellari. He completed a M.A. in mathematics from the Karnataka University, Dharwar and a Ph.D.(1975) (Some Analysis, Synthesis and Enumeration Problem in Graph Theory) from IIT Madras. His advisor was K. R. Parthasarathy. From there, he came to University of Mumbai to work with S. S. Shrikhande, S. B. Rao and Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak. Prior to joining the computer science department at IIT Madras, he was with the department of mathematics, Madurai Kamaraj University. While at Madurai, he visited University of Reading to work with Crispin Nash-Williams. Choudum has guided Ph.D. students in graph theory.

Books

• A First Course in Graph Theory (English) by S.A. Choudum Macmillan,1999 ISBN 0333920406

References

• S. A. Choudum at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
• Dr. Choudum's webpage in the department

Persondata
Name	Choudum, Sheshayya A.
Alternative names
Short description	Indian mathematicians
Date of birth	1947
Place of birth	India
Date of death
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