Template:Did you know nominations/Ronald Graham

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 03:54, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Ronald Graham

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• ... that mathematician Ronald Graham dropped out of high school and two universities before majoring in physics at a third? Source: MacTutor, "without graduating from high school" ... "spent three years at the University of Chicago" ... "at the University of California at Berkeley where he majored in electrical engineering" ... "enlist in the U.S. Air Force" ... "enrolled at the University of Alaska and, carrying out his studies as well as his Air Force duties, he was awarded a B.S. in physics in 1959"
  • ALT1:... that a result of Ronald Graham was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as using the largest number ever in a mathematical proof? Source: clip from Guinness Book of Records. Careful wording is important for this hook because Graham himself is not named in the book.
  • ALT2:... that Ronald Graham, president of the American Mathematical Society and Mathematical Association of America, also became president of the International Jugglers' Association? Source: Calit2 news release: "past president of the two largest associations of mathematicians" ... "past president of the International Jugglers' Association"

• Reviewed: Miriam Usher Chrisman

Improved to Good Article status by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 20:13, 30 January 2021 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Just one thing, David Eppstein. Also worth noting that this was featured on the mainpage in ITNRD, which doesn't disqualify it from DYK. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 20:55, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

• The phrase you queried. "as a result", does not appear in any of these hooks. "Result" is used here in the sense of a scholarly accomplishment; it is a perfectly normal English noun that does not have an obligatory prepositional phrase attached to it. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:06, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

• as I suspected, a misread by me. I prefer ALT2 but all three are technically fine. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 22:00, 30 January 2021 (UTC)