Talk:Ronald Graham

message: Is there a more recent picture of him??  He looks very young for a 72 year old in those pictures.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.108.202.22 (talk) 02:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Now he looks very young for a 76-year-old :-) If you GIS him you can see that there are some newer pictures out there, but they're all covered by copyright. Perhaps that China Symposium could be persuaded to grant the rights to their photo? Your Lord and Master (talk) 00:45, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Recent Picture?? 

message: Firstly, the quality of the image looks way too high. Secondly, he's wearing a digital watch; they only came into prevalence in the mid-to-late 70's. Thirdly, the reference for that date is some document which seems to just guess at dates (the author also mistyped 1960's as 1060's, somehow). I'm removing the caption, but if anyone can find a more accurate date or year, feel free... -- Pingumeister(talk) 18:08, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  There's no way the lead image is from the 1960's 

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message: I struck the parenthetical comment from "Bell Labs and (as it became) AT&T Labs".
At the divestiture of Lucent Technologies, AT&T Bell Labs split into
Bell Labs in Lucent and AT&T Labs in AT&T. Whether the flag of Bell Labs
was passed with the name or with the owner is a matter of opinion. If you
think it's important to indicate a relationship , AT&T Labs could be identified
as "offshoot" or "descendant" of Bell Labs. Mdmi (talk) 03:26, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genealogy of AT&T Labs 

message: According to  Prof. Graham has four wives. However, the article specifies only one wife. Should I change it? --- ProfPizza (talk) 21:42, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: "had", not "has".  But also only one of his wives (Fan Chung) is notable.  Per its documentation, the infobox entry "spouse(s)" is for links to articles about notable spouses.  So that strongly suggests the answer is "no".  (An earlier wife is mentioned in the body of the article.) --JBL (talk) 21:55, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. The article is ok as is, clearly stating that he was married before Fan and listing only Fan (as the only notable spouse) in the infobox. I'm not convinced the "fourth wife" phrasing of the Guardian link is enough to say definitively that he was married four times, without more verifiable detail on to whom and when. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:59, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes; I haven't seen this specific factoid anywhere else (not that I've been looking hard for it or anything), so it also seems possible that it's an error by the Guardian. --JBL (talk) 22:26, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Okay. Agreed! Thanks for replying. -- ProfPizza (talk) 23:22, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think the Guardian is just in error here. Paul Hoffman had a lot of conversations with Graham for his book on Erdős, and it has some biographical material on Graham too. According to that book (p. 152), Nancy Young was his second wife, not his first as the Guardian has it. The book mentions only two wives before his marriage with Chung in 1983. XOR'easter (talk) 22:41, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wives