Jenő Egerváry

Jenő Egerváry (born April 16, 1891 in Debrecen , † November 30, 1958 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian mathematician .

Egervary was in 1914 Leopold Fejér at the Eotvos Lorand University doctorate . After that he was at the Seismological Observatory in Budapest and became a professor at the technical college. In 1938 he became a private lecturer at the Lorand Eötvös University and in 1941 professor at the Technical University of Budapest. In 1958 he committed suicide because of conflicts with the communist government.

In 1931 he proved a version of König's theorem for weighted graphs. The article was translated into English by Harold W. Kuhn in 1955 and Kuhn also showed its application in solving the assignment problem ( Hungarian method ).

In 1932 he received the Gyula König Prize and in 1941 the Kossuth Prize .

Web links

Silvano Martello: Jenö Egervary: From the origins of the Hungarian Algorithm to Satellite Communications, University of Bologna, pdf

Individual evidence

^ On combinatorial properties of matrices, Logistics Papers, George Washington University, Volume 11, 1955, pp. 1-11

personal data
SURNAME	Egerváry, Jenő
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Hungarian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 16, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Debrecen
DATE OF DEATH	November 30, 1958
Place of death	Budapest

[1] On combinatorial properties of matrices, Logistics Papers, George Washington University, Volume 11, 1955, pp. 1-11