Thomas H. Brylawski Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

A memorial conference was held in honor of Brylawski in October 2008 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a special issue of the European Journal of Combinatorics in 2011 was dedicated as a tribute to the work of Brylawski.

He died in 2007 of esophageal cancer at the Duke Hospice inpatient facility in Hillsborough, North Carolina.

Brylawski was an editor for the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society from 1977 until 1989. Brylawski wrote 40 mathematical publications, and advised 6 PhD students.

Thomas Henry Brylawski (June 17, 1944 – July 18, 2007) was an American mathematician and professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He worked primarily in matroid theory.

Brylawski was born in 1944, and grew up in Washington, D.C. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his undergraduate degree, finishing with a bachelor of science in 1966. He then went on to Dartmouth College for his graduate work. He completed his PhD under the direction of Gian-Carlo Rota and Robert Norman in 1970. After his PhD, he moved to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he spent the rest of his career.