Robin Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and a former Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. He is currently President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. He has written and edited many books on graph theory, including Introduction to Graph Theory and Four Colours Suffice, and on the history of mathematics, including Lewis Carroll in Numberland. He is involved with the popularization and communication of mathematics and its history, and was awarded a Polya prize by the Mathematical Association of America for 'outstanding expository writing'.


John J. Watkins is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Colorado College, USA. He received his doctorate from the University of Kansas, specializing in commutative ring theory. His main research interest, however, has been in graph theory and he has published mainly in this area, including many papers with undergraduates as co-authors. He has written several books, including Graphs: An Introductory Approach, Across the Board: The Mathematics of Chessboard Problems, and Topics in Commutative Ring Theory, and has recently finished his latest book, Elementary Number Theory. Colorado College presented John Watkins with the 2005 Boettcher Award for Faculty Excellence.

Lars Døvling Andersen, Professor of Mathematics at Aalborg University
Ian Anderson, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow
George E. Andrews, Evan Pugh Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University
Lowell Beineke, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Norman Biggs is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the London School of Economics
Andrea Bréard, Associate Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of the Sciences and Technologies of Lille, and Vice-President of the Humanities and Social Science Department of the École Polytechnique
Peter J. Cameron, Professor of Mathematics at Queen Mary, University of London
Ahmed Djebbar, Emeritus Professor of the History of Mathematics at the University of the Sciences and Technologies of Lille
A. W. F. Edwards, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and retired Professor of Biometry at the University of Cambridge
Victor J. Katz is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of the District of Columbia
Eberhard Knobloch, Emeritus Professor of the History of Science and Technology at the Berlin University of Technology, Academy Professor at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, and Honorary Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing
Donald E. Knuth, Emeritus Professor at Stanford University and Visiting Professor in Computer Science at Oxford University
Takanori Kusuba, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Osaka University of Economics
E. Keith Lloyd spent the whole of his mathematical career at the University of Southampton, latterly as a Senior Lecturer
Kim Plofker, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Union College in Schenectady, New York
John J. Watkins, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Colorado College, USA
Robin Wilson, Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and a former Fellow of Keble College, Oxford

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