Mathematician:Dénes Kőnig

Mathematician

Hungarian mathematician who was a pioneer of graph theory.

The son of Gyula Kőnig.

Nationality

Hungarian

History

• Born: September 21, 1884, Budapest, Hungary
• Died: October 19, 1944, Budapest, Hungary (by suicide)

Theorems and Definitions

• König's Theorem (Graph Theory)
• König's Lemma and a special case König's Tree Lemma

Results named for Dénes Kőnig can be found here.

Publications

• 1936: Theorie der endlichen und unendlichen Graphen (Theory of finite and infinite graphs), the first textbook on graph theory.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Dénes Kőnig": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive