Talk:Frank Harary

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It would be interesting to see Harary's political views documented. I distinctly remember him giving a bit of an anti-Pinochet diatribe in class one day. There were also rumors that Harary was a slumlord, or something along those lines. 0-0-0-Destruct-0 00:43, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I removed the following amusing but unreferenced story that can't be true as stated:


 * A story told by a graduate student has it that one day Harary boasted that he was so important he could submit any paper with his name on it and the paper would be published. To prove it he pulled out an empty sheet of paper, wrote the title "Is the Null Graph a Pointless Concept?" and submitted it.  The paper was published!  (I heard this story from the graduate student who was teaching an undergraduate course that I took).

The truth is that the paper was published, it is several pages long, and it discusses the question seriously (perhaps not too seriously). It has often been talked about jokingly but it is not completely pointless. (Sorry.) Zaslav 06:59, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Articles in "Bibiliography" section
Harary is an author of hundreds of articles. Hardly you are going to list all of them here. `'mikka 02:07, 11 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I hope not! Anyway, few of them need to be mentioned. Zaslav (talk) 04:12, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
 * You are commenting on the issu of 18 moths ago. Anyway; a possible solution is, like everything in wikipedia, to follow the general notability criterion: if some articles in Harary are cited in numerous books and surveys, it means they were seminal for some issues, hence they deserve to be described in the article about Harary and, of course, cited. 04:32, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

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Harary’s Poetry and Love of Dancing, Etc.
I met Frank when he attended a conference in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (Canada) celebrating his 70th birthday. I was working as Editorial Assistant and Research Coordinator for Paul Mezey, the editor of the Journal of Mathematical Chemistry and who hosted the conference. He and Frank have published together. The two of them are witty in their own rights and together they were hilarious.

I wish I still had some of the long rhyming poetry Frank wrote commemorating some of his many trips (on the great mission of presenting in cities that started with each letter of the alphabet). One particular line he used frequently in his poems - because of its capacity for rhyme was “I can scan, yes I can”. Very Seusical. If anyone has collected his poetry - much would have been in his emails - I would love to be able to see it again.

He also loved to dance. Folk dancing he called it. I wasn’t able to attend the conference closing banquet and dance when he was here so missed the opportunity to dance with him. I’d also love to see a video of him dancing.

I remember the concern when he was bitten by a brown recluse spider! It was quite bad and it seems to me that he may have been bitten twice in his lifetime.

We had one other odd connection. As a young woman attending the University of Saskatchewan, I had the pleasure of serving as host to Max Maven who passed away this week (and has me thinking of both he and Frank). They new each other through mathematics and Frank’s nephew - Franz - who is a magician. Such a small and crazy world!

I was also saddened that Frank had very significant art pieces locked away safely in a vault instead of on walks where they could be enjoyed. I hope those pieces are being enjoyed somewhere now.

I’d love to hear more Frank Stories if anyone cares to share. I miss his presence in the world. 198.245.115.201 (talk) 19:06, 4 November 2022 (UTC)