About András Gyárfás
Born 1945. András Gyárfás is a Hungarian mathematician.
András Gyárfás (born 1945) is a Hungarian mathematician who specializes in the study of graph theory. He is famous for two conjectures:
Together with Paul Erdős he conjectured what is now called the Erdős–Gyárfás conjecture which states that any graph with minimum degree 3 contains a cycle whose length is a power of two. He and David Sumner independently formulated the Gyárfás–Sumner conjecture according to which, for every tree T, the T-free graphs are χ-bounded.
Gyárfás began working as a researcher for the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1968. He earned a candidate degree in 1980, and a doctorate (Dr. Math. Sci.) in 1992. He won the Géza Grünwald Commemorative Prize for young researchers of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society in 1978. He was co-author with Paul Erdős on 15 papers, and thus has Erdős number one.
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Hungarian mathematician
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András Gyárfás was born on 18 August 1945 in Gyula.
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András Gyárfás is a mathematician.
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András Gyárfás is Hungarian.
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