Mathematician:George Szekeres

Mathematician

Hungarian, later Australian, mathematician who worked mainly in geometry and combinatorics.

Husband of Esther Szekeres.

Nationality

Hungarian

History

• Born: 29 May 1911 in Budapest, Hungary
• Died: 28 August 2005 in Adelaide, Australia

Theorems and Definitions

• Szekeres Snark
• Kruskal-Szekeres Coordinates (with Martin David Kruskal)
• Szekeres-Wilf Number (with Herbert Saul Wilf)

• Erdős-Szekeres Theorem (with Paul Erdős)

Results named for George Szekeres can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for George Szekeres can be found here.

Publications

• 1935: A combinatorial problem in geometry (Compos. Math. Vol. 2: pp. 463 – 470) (with Paul Erdős)
• 1968: An Inequality for the Chromatic Number of a Graph (with Herbert Saul Wilf)

Also known as

The Hungarian version of his name: Szekeres György.

Sources

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