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Jenő Egerváry

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Jenő Egerváry

Aliases: Jenő Elek Egerváry

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1891-04-16 (Debrecen)
Died
1958-11-30 (Budapest) age 67
Nationality
Hungarian
Languages
Hungarian
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Debrecen → Budapest

Career

Occupations
mathematician
Active Years
1914-1958
Affiliations
Seismological Observatory, Budapest, Superior Industrial School, Budapest, Pázmány Péter University, Budapest Technical University, Research Institute for Applied Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Influenced By
Lipót Fejér
Influenced
Dénes Kőnig

Education

Pázmány Péter University
Mathematics
Degree: 博士号
Year of Graduation: 1914
Country: Hungary
指導教官: リポート・フェイエル

Awards

Gyula Kőnig Prize
1932
Result: 受賞
Kossuth Prize
1949
Result: 受賞
Kossuth Prize
1953
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

On combinatorial properties of matrices

1931 Mathematics

Generalization of Kőnig's theorem to weighted graphs, a classic result in combinatorial optimization.

Combinatorial optimizationGraph theory

Bibliography

  • Matrixok kombinatorius tulajdonságairól (1931)

Health

  • Mental distress due to communist bureaucracy
    1958
    Led to suicide

Legacy

Hungarian mathematician known for the Kőnig–Egerváry theorem, foundational to the Hungarian method in combinatorial optimization.

Trivia

  • Committed suicide due to troubles from communist bureaucracy.