Stanton, Ralph Gordon

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    • Ralph Gordon Stanton (21 October 1923 – 21 April 2010) was a Canadian mathematician, teacher, scholar, and pioneer in mathematics and computing education. As a researcher, he made important contributions in the area of discrete mathematics; and as an educator and administrator, was also instrumental in founding the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, and for establishing its unofficial mascot of the pink tie.
    • Stanton was born in Lambeth, Ontario, Canada on 21 October 1923. He was the eldest of four children.
    • Stanton received his BA in Mathematics and Physics in 1944 from the University of Western Ontario. He went on to receive his MA in 1945 and PhD in 1948, both from the University of Toronto. His PhD dissertation was on the topic “On The Mathiew Group M(Sub 24)”, under advisor Richard Dagobert Brauer. He received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from the University of Queensland in 1989, and from the University of Natal in 1997. He also received an honorary D. Math from the University of Waterloo in 1997.
    • Stanton’s main areas of research were in statistics and applied statistics; algebra; mathematical biology; combinatorial design theory, including pair-wise balanced designs, difference sets, covering and packing designs, and room squares; graph theory, including graph models of networks; and algorithms.
    • Stanton’s collection of French and Portuguese literature was described as one of the world’s largest private collections of classical Portuguese literature. He donated his collection to the Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto. His donations spanned from 1987 to his death in 2010, with the bulk being donated in the 1990s. Thanks to his generosity, the Fisher Rare Book Library now “boasts comprehensive collections of most of the significant French playwrights of the Classical period”. An example of his donations is a two-volume set of the 1587 edition of Holinshed’s Chronicles.
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