Torrence Parsons Explained

Torrence Douglas Parsons (1941 - 1987) was an American mathematician.

He worked mainly in graph theory, and is known for introducing a graph-theoretic view of pursuit–evasion problems (Parsons 1976, 1978). He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1966 under the supervision of Albert W. Tucker.

Selected publications

• Parsons, T. D. . Pursuit–evasion in a graph . Theory and Applications of Graphs . 1976 . Springer-Verlag . 426 - 441.
• Parsons, T.D. . The search number of a connected graph . Proc. 10th Southeastern Conf. Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing . 1978 . 549 - 554.

Further reading

Memorial articles in

• Journal of Graph Theory vol. 12
• Discrete Mathematics vol. 78