Dr Richard H. Schelp was an American mathematician

Mathematician

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Schelp received his Bachelors degree in mathematics and physics

Physics

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 from the University of Central Missouri

University of Central Missouri

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 and his Masters degree and doctorate in mathematics from Kansas State University

Kansas State University

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. The adviser from his thesis was Richard Joseph Greechie.
He was an associate mathematician and missile scientist at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

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 for five years. He then became an instructor of mathematics at Kansas State University

Kansas State University

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 for four years. Finally in 1970 he became a professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Memphis

University of Memphis

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. He retired in 2001.

Schelp, an Erdős number

Erdos number

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 one mathematician, was the fourth most frequent scholarly collaborator with Paul Erdős

Paul Erdos

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. He also collaborated on research with another top ten most frequent Erdős collaborator, Ralph Faudree

Ralph Faudree

Ralph Jasper Faudree is a mathematician, a professor of mathematics and the provost of the University of Memphis.Faudree was born in Durant, Oklahoma. He did his undergraduate studies at Oklahoma Baptist University, graduating in 1961, and received his Ph.D. in 1964 from Purdue University under...

, who is based at the University of Memphis as well.

External links

• Dr. Richard Schelp home page
• Richard H. Schelp in Microsoft Academic Search