Ronald C. Read, British-born Canadian mathematician, Died at 94

Ronald Cedric Read was born on December 19, 1924, in Croydon, England and died on January 7, 2019.

He was a British-born Canadian mathematician.

He served as a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Read wrote many books and papers, primarily on enumeration of graphs, graph isomorphism, chromatic polynomials, and particularly, the use of computers in graph-theoretical research. Most of his later work was done later in Waterloo. He earned his Ph.D. (1959) in graph theory from the University of London.

Read's hobby was the making of string figures and is the inventor of the Olympic Flag String Figure on YouTube.

Read was also an accomplished musician and played many instruments including violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, guitar, lute, and many early music instruments, some of which he also built.

Ronald C. Read passed away at 94 years old.