Robert C. Prim
Robert Clay Prim (* 1921 in Sweetwater , Texas ) is an American mathematician and computer scientist .
In 1941 he received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University . During the Second World War he worked at General Electric as an engineer . In 1949 he received his Ph.D. , also at Princeton University. From 1958 to 1961 he worked at Bell Laboratories , where he rediscovered Prim's algorithm , which is used to calculate a minimum spanning tree and was originally developed by Vojtěch Jarník .
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| SURNAME | Prim, Robert C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Prim, Robert Clay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mathematician and computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sweetwater , Texas |