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'''Gert Sabidussi''' ( |
'''Gert Sabidussi''' (28 October 1929 – 1 April 2022) was an Austrian [[mathematician]] specializing in [[combinatorics]] and [[graph theory]]. |
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== Biography == |
== Biography == |
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Sabidussi was born in [[Graz]], |
Sabidussi was born in [[Graz]], Austria, on 28 October 1929. His family later moved to [[Innsbruck]], where his father was a Protestant [[deacon]]. He graduated from the [[University of Vienna]], where he attended lectures by [[Felix Ehrenhaft]], [[Nikolaus Hofreiter]], [[Johann Radon]] and [[Hans Thirring]]. In 1953, he defended his [[Ph.D.|doctorate]] on [[Logical matrix|0–1 matrices]] under the supervision of [[Edmund Hlawka]] and received a two-year fellowship at [[Princeton University]]. He was then an instructor at the [[University of Minnesota]] in [[Minneapolis]], but because of the heavy teaching load moved a year later, in 1956, to [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]]. He moved to [[McMaster University]] in [[Hamilton, Ontario]], in 1960 and afterwards to the [[University of Montreal]] in 1969. He was instrumental in bringing to Canada a number of combinatorialists and graph theorists, including [[Anton Kotzig]] and [[Jaroslav Nešetřil]], who wrote a thesis under Sabidussi. Over the years, he had 13 graduate students. His 60th, 70th and 80th birthdays were celebrated with large graph theory birthday conferences. Sabidussi died on 1 April 2022, at the age of 92.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Internationale Mathematische Nachrichten |journal=Österreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft |date=April 2023 |issue=252 |url=https://www.oemg.ac.at/db/IMN/ |access-date=1 January 2024}}</ref> |
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== Mathematical work== |
== Mathematical work== |
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== References == |
== References == |
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== Sources == |
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* [http://www.oemg.ac.at/IMN/imn185.pdf Sabidussi's Biography] (in [[German language|German]]) |
* [http://www.oemg.ac.at/IMN/imn185.pdf Sabidussi's Biography] (in [[German language|German]]) |
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== External links == |
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* [https://recherche.umontreal.ca/english/our-researchers/professors-directory/researcher/is/in14207/ Gert Sabidussi Web Page] at Université de Montréal. |
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* [http://www.cs.sfu.ca/news/conferences/AlgebraicGraphTheory/2009/ Algebraic Graph Theory 2009], a Conference in celebration of Gert Sabidussi's 80th birthday. |
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110213032811/http://www.cs.sfu.ca/news/conferences/AlgebraicGraphTheory/2009/ Algebraic Graph Theory 2009], a Conference in celebration of Gert Sabidussi's 80th birthday. |
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Latest revision as of 17:01, 15 August 2024
Gert Sabidussi (28 October 1929 – 1 April 2022) was an Austrian mathematician specializing in combinatorics and graph theory.
Biography
[edit]Sabidussi was born in Graz, Austria, on 28 October 1929. His family later moved to Innsbruck, where his father was a Protestant deacon. He graduated from the University of Vienna, where he attended lectures by Felix Ehrenhaft, Nikolaus Hofreiter, Johann Radon and Hans Thirring. In 1953, he defended his doctorate on 0–1 matrices under the supervision of Edmund Hlawka and received a two-year fellowship at Princeton University. He was then an instructor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, but because of the heavy teaching load moved a year later, in 1956, to Tulane University in New Orleans. He moved to McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1960 and afterwards to the University of Montreal in 1969. He was instrumental in bringing to Canada a number of combinatorialists and graph theorists, including Anton Kotzig and Jaroslav Nešetřil, who wrote a thesis under Sabidussi. Over the years, he had 13 graduate students. His 60th, 70th and 80th birthdays were celebrated with large graph theory birthday conferences. Sabidussi died on 1 April 2022, at the age of 92.[1]
Mathematical work
[edit]Sabidussi wrote foundational work on Cayley graphs, graph products and Frucht's theorem.
References
[edit]- ^ "Internationale Mathematische Nachrichten". Österreichische Mathematische Gesellschaft (252). April 2023. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
Sources
[edit]External links
[edit]- Gert Sabidussi Web Page at Université de Montréal.
- Gert Sabidussi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Algebraic Graph Theory 2009, a Conference in celebration of Gert Sabidussi's 80th birthday.
