John Adrian Bondy

John Adrian Bondy, born in 1944, is a retired English mathematician known for his work in combinatorics and graph theory. He received his doctorate in graph theory from the University of Oxford in 1969 under Dominic Welsh. From 1969 to 1994 he was Professor of Graph Theory at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and then held a chair at Université Lyon 1 in France until he retired. He was managing editor of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B from 1976 and co-editor-in-chief with U. S. R. Murty from 1979 to 2004. He co-wrote the influential textbook Graph Theory with Applications with Murty, supervised twelve doctoral students and has an Erdős number of 1. Outside mathematics he is a photographer who founded the Mind's Eye association and gallery in Paris.