Mathematician:Wolfgang Haken

Mathematician

German mathematician mainly involved in topology where the bulk of his work has been on 3-dimensional manifolds.

In $1976$, along with Kenneth Ira Appel, proved the Four Color Theorem with the help of a computer.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: June 21, 1928
• Died: October 2, 2022

Theorems and Definitions

• Four Color Theorem (with Kenneth Ira Appel)
• Haken Manifold
• Kneser-Haken Finiteness (with Hellmuth Kneser)

Results named for Wolfgang Haken can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Wolfgang Haken can be found here.

Publications

• 1961: Theorie der Normalflachen (Acta Math. Vol. 105: pp. 245 – 375)