Dénes Kőnig (September 21, 1884 – October 19, 1944) was a Hungarian mathematician of Hungarian Jewish heritage who worked in and wrote the first textbook on the field of graph theory.

Biography

Kőnig was born in Budapest, the son of mathematician Gyula Kőnig. In 1907, he received his doctorate at, and joined the faculty of the Royal Joseph University in Budapest (today Budapest University of Technology and Economics). His classes were visited by Paul Erdős, who, as a first year student, solved one of his problems. Kőnig became a full professor there in 1935.

Past award recipients

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|2008

|Adam Wade Marcus

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|2010

|Jacob Fox

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|2012

|Zeev Dvir

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|2014

|Wojciech Samotij

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|2016

|Lutz Warnke

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|2018

|Yufei Zhao

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|2020

|Matthew Kwan

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|2022

|Sarah Peluse

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|2024

|Jinyoung Park and Huy Tuan Pham

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Bibliography

  • . Translated from German by Richard McCoart, Theory of finite and infinite graphs, Birkhäuser, 1990, .

See also

  • Kőnig's theorem (graph theory)
  • Kőnig's theorem (set theory) is due to Dénes' father, Gyula Kőnig.
  • Kőnig's lemma
  • Labyrinth problem

References

  • a Hungarian biography site
  • Dénes König Prize