Paul A. Catlin

Paul Allen Catlin
Born(1948-06-25)June 25, 1948
DiedApril 20, 1995(1995-04-20) (aged 46)
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
Ohio State University
Known forGraph theory
Number theory
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsWayne State University
ThesisEmbedding subgraphs and coloring graphs under extremal degree conditions (1976)
Doctoral advisorG. Neil Robertson

Paul Allen Catlin (June 25, 1948April 20, 1995) was a mathematician, professor of mathematics who worked in graph theory and number theory. He wrote a significant paper on the series of chromatic numbers and Brooks' theorem, titled Hajós graph coloring conjecture: variations and counterexamples.