A people is a group of individuals who belong to and function within a particular society. In common usage, the term people may be synonymous with human, or otherwise may carry an exclusive meaning. In general, the word people is a collective noun used to define a specific group of humans. However, when used to refer to a group of humans possessing a common ethnic, cultural or national unitary characteristic or identity, "people" is a singular noun, and as such takes an "s" in the plural; (example: "the English-speaking peoples of the world").
The concept of personhood (who is a person within a society) is the fundamental component of any selective concept of people. A distinction is maintained in philosophy and law between the notions "human being", or "man", and "person". The former refers to the species, while the latter refers to a rational agent (see, for example, John Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding II 27 and Immanuel Kant's Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals).
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Bela Bollobas - Functional analysis, combinatorics and graph theory.
Binh Minh Bui Xuan - Graph theory, graph algorithms and computation.
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Dan Archdeacon - Topological graph theory, combinatorics, theoretical computer science.
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David Eppstein - Graph algorithms and computational geometry.
David Penman - Random graphs, computational combinatorics.
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Erdos Number Project - List of people with Erdos number at most 2.
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Erich Prisner - Graph theory, algorithms, computational geometry and cellular automata.
Gary Chartrand - Graph structures, distance in graphs and domination.
Gordon Royle - Algebraic graph theory.
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Hubert de Fraysseix - Topological graph theory and combinatorics.
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Julien Moncel - Identifying codes in graphs, combinatorics, graph theory and computer science.
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Keith Edwards - Harmonious colourings and achromatic number.
Rich Lundgren - Applied graph theory and combinatorial matrix theory.
Stephen C. Locke - Graph theory and algorithms.
Tom Whaley - Formal development of programs, Steinhaus graphs, parallel computing.
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