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Dénes Kőnig
Dénes Kőnig was a Hungarian mathematician of Hungarian Jewish heritage who worked in and wrote the first textbook on the field of graph theory.
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science · Hungarian mathematician (1884–1944) · mathematician · university teacher · also Dénes Kőnig, Kőnig
Born 21 September 1884 · Died 19 October 1944 · Q19059
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1958· 1 entry
Claude Berge wrote the second book on graph theory, Théorie des Graphes et ses applications, following Kőnig
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1944· 3 entries
Died 1944-10-19.
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Committed suicide to evade persecution from the Nazis for being a Hungarian Jew
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The National Socialist Arrow Cross Party took over the country
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1933· 1 entry
Was elected as secretary of the society and in 1942 he became the chairman of this committee
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1920· 1 entry
These lectures made their way into book form
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1913· 1 entry
Kőnig and his brother György created the Gyula Kőnig prize in 1918
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1911· 1 entry
Teaching nomography, analysis situs (later to be known as topology), set theory, real numbers and functions, and graph theory
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1910· 1 entry
Was promoted to "oberassistant", and then promoted to "Privatdocent" in 1911 teaching nomography, analysis situs (later to be known as topology), set theory, real numbers and functions, and graph theory (the name "gr
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1907· 3 entries
Due to his dissertation in geometry, that same year he began working for the Technische Hochschule in Budapest and remained a part of the faculty till his death in 1944
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Studied at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (1907–1907).
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Received his doctorate at, and joined the faculty of the Royal Joseph University in Budapest (today Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
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1906· 1 entry
Studied at University of Göttingen (1904–1906).
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1904· 1 entry
Studied at Eötvös Loránd University (1902–1904).
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1902· 1 entry
Won first place in a mathematical competition "Eötvös Loránd"
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1899· 1 entry
Published his first work while still attending High School in a journal Matematikai és Fizikai Lapok
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1884· 1 entry
Born 1884-09-21.
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