Gerhard Ringel
Mathematician, Academic
1919 – 2008
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Who was Gerhard Ringel?
Gerhard Ringel was a German mathematician who earned his Ph.D. from the University of Bonn in 1951. He was one of the pioneers in graph theory and contributed significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture, a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four Color Theorem.
Although born in Kollnbrunn, Ringel was raised in Czechoslovakia and attended Charles University before being drafted into the German Army in 1940
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- Born
- Oct 28, 1919
Bad Pirawarth - Nationality
- United States of America
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- University of Bonn
- Charles University in Prague
- Died
- Jun 24, 2008
Santa Cruz
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on July 23, 2013
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