Herbert Wilf

Herbert Saul Wilf
Born	June 13, 1931 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died	January 7, 2012(2012-01-07) (aged 80) Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater	Columbia University Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	Combinatorics Wilf equivalence Wilf number Wilf's sequence Wilf–Zeilberger pair Calkin–Wilf tree Stanley–Wilf conjecture Szekeres–Wilf number
Awards	Leroy P. Steele Prize (1998) Euler Medal (2002)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania
Thesis	The Transmission of Neutrons in Multilayered Slab Geometry (1958)
Doctoral advisor	Herbert Ellis Robbins
Doctoral students	Fan Chung Richard Garfield Rodica Simion E. Roy Weintraub Michael Wertheimer

Herbert Saul Wilf (June 13, 1931 – January 7, 2012) was an American mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. He was the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics in Combinatorial Analysis and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania. He wrote numerous books and research papers. Together with Neil Calkin he founded The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics in 1994 and was its editor-in-chief until 2001.