Tibor Gallai

Details

Instance of

human

Born

15 July 1912

Died

2 January 1992

Place of birth

Budapest

Place of death

Budapest

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Tibor

Family name

Gallai

Field of work

combinatorics, graph theory, set theory, geometry

Occupation

mathematician, university teacher

Citizenship

Hungary

Awards

Kossuth Prize

academic thesis

Valós zéróhelyekkel bíró polinomokról

birth name

Tibor Grünwald

doctoral advisor

Dénes Kőnig

doctoral student

László Lovász, Jenő Lehel, Béla Andrásfai

educated at

Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

employer

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Erdős number

1

ethnic group

Jewish people

languages spoken, written or signed

Hungarian

member of

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

member of political party

Hungarian Communist Party

notable work

Gallai's theorem, Gallai–Hasse–Roy–Vitaver theorem, Sylvester–Gallai theorem, Erdős–Gallai theorem, Gallai–Edmonds decomposition, Sylvester–Gallai configuration

place of burial

Farkasréti Cemetery

student

Vera T. Sós

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