Gabriel Andrew Dirac
Hungarian-British mathemetician (1925-1984) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gabriel Andrew Dirac (13 March 1925 – 20 July 1984) was a Hungarian-British mathematician who mainly worked in graph theory.[1] He served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin from 1964 to 1966.[2] In 1952, he gave a sufficient condition for a graph to contain a Hamiltonian circuit. The previous year, he conjectured that n points in the plane, not all collinear, must span at least two-point lines, where is the largest integer not exceeding . This conjecture was proven true when n is sufficiently large by Green and Tao in 2012.[3]
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Gabriel Andrew Dirac | |
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Born | (1925-03-13)13 March 1925 |
Died | 20 July 1984(1984-07-20) (aged 59) |
Education | Ph.D. |
Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge University of London |
Known for | Graph theory |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Aarhus, Trinity College Dublin |
Thesis | On the Colouring of Graphs: Combinatorial topology of Linear Complexes (1952) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Rado |
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