Background
Hales, Alfred Washington was born on November 30, 1938 in Pasadena, California, United States. Son of Raleigh Stanton and Gwendolen (Washington) Hales.
mathematician university professor
Hales, Alfred Washington was born on November 30, 1938 in Pasadena, California, United States. Son of Raleigh Stanton and Gwendolen (Washington) Hales.
Bachelor of Science, California Institute of Technology, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology, 1962.
National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, Cambridge U., England, 1962-1963;
Benjamin Peirce instructor, Harvard University, 1963-1966;
faculty member, University of California at Los Angeles, 1966-1992;
professor mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles, 1973-1992;
professor emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1992;
director, Institute Defense Analyses, Center Communications Research, La Jolla, California, since 1992. Consultant Jet Propulsion Laboratory, La Canada, California, 1966-1970, Institute for Def.Analyses, Princeton, New Jersey and LaJolla, California, 1964-1965, 76, 79-92. Visiting lecturer U. Washington, Seattle, 1970-1971.
Visiting member U. Warwick Mathematics Institute, Coventry, England, 1977-1978, Mathematics Science Research Institute, Berkeley, 1986-1987.
Board trustees Mathematics Science Research Institute, Berkeley, 1995—1999. Board trustees, chair Institute Pure & Applied Maths.UCLA, since 2010. Member American Mathematics Society, Mathematics Association American, Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Polya prize in combinatorics 1972), Pasadena Badminton Club, Sigma Xi, American Association Advancement Sciences(fellow, 2009).
Married Virginia Dart Greene, July 7, 1962. Children– Andrew Stanton, Lisa Ruth, Katherine Washington.