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Notability and sources

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  • Crapo appears to be notable under WP:NPROF C1. A GS search will show several papers and books that have been cited hundreds of times, in a low-citation field. This is further supported by the special issue of Adv. Appl. Math. in his honor, and by his frequent mention in the Wikipedia articles on the Tutte polynomial and matroids.
  • The Matroid Union source is a blog run by several prominent matroid theorists. The cited post is by James Oxley. While not as strong as a journal publication, I believe this to be a reasonably reliable source regarding the importance of his work.

Questions: is there a reliable source for his birthday? Is there a reliable source connecting him with the Henry Crapo who graduated from the University of Michigan in 1954 (referenced in old Michigan Daily articles)? Is there more information on his career arc and time at various institutions? – Russ Woodroofe (talk) 03:28, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:19, 14 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

University of Waterloo Porcellino
University of Waterloo Porcellino
  • ... that mathematics professor Henry Crapo once donated a shoulder-height bronze sculpture of a boar to the University of Waterloo? "The Boar in the News". Special Collections & Archives. University of Waterloo Library. Retrieved October 25, 2019.: "This shoulder-high bronze sculpture of a wild boar will one day make its home on the UW campus. ... Meanwhile, the bronze sits in central stores. It was donated to the math faculty's Descartes Foundation by former math professor Dr. Henry Crapo."

Moved to mainspace by Russ Woodroofe (talk). Self-nominated at 07:53, 1 November 2019 (UTC).[reply]