Miroslav Fiedler

Miroslav Fiedler (born April 7, 1926 in Prague ; † November 20, 2015 ) was a Czech mathematician , known for his contributions to linear algebra and algebraic graph theory .

Life

As a schoolboy, Fiedler won a problem-solving competition held by a mathematical journal and studied mathematics and physics at Charles University in Prague from 1945 . For a work on plane algebraic curves by Bohumil Bydžovský (1880–1969) he received a Dr. rer. nat. (Rerum Naturalium Doctor) He then did research at the Central Institute for Mathematics in Prague with Eduard Čech , which was soon assigned to the Academy of Sciences. In 1955 he received his doctorate for his dissertation The Geometry of Simplex (Czech) (candidate title). After that, he not only worked on geometry, but also matrix theory and graph theory as well as application in optimization and completed his habilitation in 1963 (doctorate in the system at that time). In 1965 he became a mathematics professor at the Charles University in Prague.

In 1964 he was at Caltech , 1969/70 and 1979/80 at Auburn University and in 1984 and 1987 at the University of South Carolina .

In 1973 he used the eigenvalues of the Laplace matrix of graphs to describe the relationship between graphs, which found many applications.

In 1993 he received the Hans Schneider Prize for Linear Algebra. In 1978 he received the Czechoslovak National Prize with Vlastimil Pták and in 1985 the Bernard Bolzano gold medal. In 2006 he received the De Scientia et Humanitate Optime Meritis from the Czech Academy of Sciences.

He was a member of the learned society of the Czech Republic and an honorary member of the Union of Czech Mathematicians and Physicists.

Fonts

with Karel Culik, Vaclav Dolezal: Combinatorial Analysis in Practice (Czech), 1967
with J. Zemánek: Selected Problems of the Mathematical Olympiads (Czech), Prague 1976
Matrices and graphs in Geometry, Cambridge University Press 2011
Special matrices and their applications in numerical mathematics, 1986, Dover 2008 (Czech original 1981)
with Josef Nedoma, Jaroslav Ramik, Jiri Rohn, Karel Zimmermann: Linear optimization problems with inexact data, Springer 2006
Algebraic connectivity of graphs, Czechoslovak Math. J., Vol. 23, 1973, pp. 298-305
Laplacian of graphs and algebraic connectivity, Combinatorics and Graph Theory, Volume 25, 1989, pp. 57-70

Web links

Reminder page
John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Miroslav Fiedler. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .

Individual evidence

^ Before the official introduction of academic degrees based on the Soviet model in post-war Czechoslovakia in 1953 and then classified as a diploma.

personal data
SURNAME	Fiedler, Miroslav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague
DATE OF DEATH	20th November 2015

[1] Before the official introduction of academic degrees based on the Soviet model in post-war Czechoslovakia in 1953 and then classified as a diploma.