Gyula Y. Katona
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Gyula Y. Katona is a Hungarian
mathematician
, the son of mathematician Gyula O. H. Katona
. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Hungarian Academy of Sciences
, with a dissertation entitled Paths and Cycles in Graphs and Hypergraphs under the advisement of László Lovász
and András Recski, and is on the faculty of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
.
Katona is the coauthor of three textbooks, Introduction to Computer Science (Typotex, Budapest, 2002), Introduction to Finite Mathematics, (Eötvös L. University, Budapest, 1993), and Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Algorithms (Technical University of Budapest, 1993). In addition his research publications include several works on Hamiltonian cycles and related properties of graphs.
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
, the son of mathematician Gyula O. H. Katona
Gyula O. H. Katona
Gyula O. H. Katona is a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in combinatorial set theory, and especially for the Kruskal–Katona theorem and his elegant proof of the Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem...
. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest.-History:...
, with a dissertation entitled Paths and Cycles in Graphs and Hypergraphs under the advisement of László Lovász
László Lovász
László Lovász is a Hungarian mathematician, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999, and the Kyoto Prize in 2010....
and András Recski, and is on the faculty of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
The Budapest University of Technology and Economics , in hungarian abbreviated as BME, English official abbreviation BUTE, is the most significant University of Technology in Hungary and is also one of the oldest Institutes of Technology in the world, having been founded in 1782.-History:BME is...
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Katona is the coauthor of three textbooks, Introduction to Computer Science (Typotex, Budapest, 2002), Introduction to Finite Mathematics, (Eötvös L. University, Budapest, 1993), and Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Algorithms (Technical University of Budapest, 1993). In addition his research publications include several works on Hamiltonian cycles and related properties of graphs.