About Dénes Kőnig
Lived 1884 – 1944 (aged 60). Dénes Kőnig was a Hungarian mathematician and university teacher.
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.
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Hungarian mathematician (1884-1944)
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Dénes Kőnig was born on 21 September 1884 in Budapest.
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