Gerard Laman

Gerard Laman (August 22, 1924 – September 22, 2009) was a Dutch mathematician who worked on graph theory.

His study of Mathematics at Leiden University was delayed by a period in hiding to evade enforced labor during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

He received private instruction in the combinatorial topology of fiber spaces in Brussels from G. Hirsch of the Agricultural University of Ghent in 1953.

From 1954 to 1957 he taught mathematics at the Delft high school 'Gemeentelijke Hogere Burgerschool HBS'.

Only when Branko Grünbaum and G. C. Shephard wrote about Laman's paper in their Lectures on lost mathematics[4] did this work receive more attention.