Jeong Han Kim

Jeong Han Kim (born July 20 1962) is a South Korean mathematician specializing in combinatorics and computational mathematics. He studied physics and mathematical physics at Yonsei University, and earned his Ph.D in mathematics at Rutgers University. He was a researcher at AT&T Bell Labs and Microsoft Research, and is currently Underwood Chair Professor of Mathematics at Yonsei University.

He received the Fulkerson Prize in 1997 for his contributions to Ramsey theory. [Jeong Han Kim, "The Ramsey Number R(3,t) has order of magnitude t^2/log t", Random Structures and Algorithms 7 (1995), 173-207.]
Notices of the AMS describes: [Notices of the AMS, Vol. 45, September 1998, p984.]

He is an outspoken critic of South Korean math education. [ [http://www.donga.com/docs/magazine/weekly/2005/11/30/200511300500041/200511300500041_1.html 원리는 잊어버리고 공식만 외우는 세태] ko icon, "dongA.com", December 6, 2005. Retrieved on March 31, 2008.]

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External links

* [http://math.yonsei.ac.kr/jehkim Homepage of Jeong Han Kim at Yonsei University]
* [http://www.mathprog.org/prz/fulkerson.htm#winners Fulkerson Prize Winners at Mathematical Programming Society]