Nathaniel Dean (mathematician)

Nathaniel Dean
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMississippi State University, Northeastern University, Vanderbilt University
Known forGraph Theory, Data Visualization, Parallel Computing
AwardsBell Labs President's Silver Award (1997)
Scientific career
FieldsApplied mathematics
InstitutionsBell Labs, Rice University, Texas Southern University, Texas State University
Thesis Contractible Edges and Conjectures about Path and Cycle Numbers (1987)
Doctoral advisorRobert Louis Hemminger

Nathaniel Dean (January 9, 1956 – January 2021) was an African-American mathematician and educator who made contributions to abstract and algorithmic graph theory, as well as data visualization and parallel computing.