Daniel P. Sanders is an American mathematician. He is known for his 1996 efficient proof (

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) of proving the Four color theorem (with

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, Paul Seymour, and

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). He used to be a guest professor of the department of computer science at

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. Sanders received his Ph.D. in algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization from

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in 1993 under the guidance of professor

. He was the Graph Theory Resources editor of www.graphtheory.com. Sanders is a quantitative strategist at

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. He has been on the faculty of the mathematics departments of

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and

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Select work

* On linear recognition of tree-width at most four, DP Sanders - SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 1996 - link.aip.org * Efficiently four-coloring planar graphs, - gatech.edu S N Robertson, DP Sanders, P Seymour, R Thomas - Proceedings of the twenty-eighth annual ACM symposium on …, 1996 - portal.acm.org

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