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22: 338:. He then received his doctorate in 1907 due to his dissertation in geometry, that same year he began working for the Technische Hochschule in Budapest and remained a part of the faculty till his death in 1944. At first he started as an assistant in problem sessions, in 1910 he was promoted to "oberassistant", and then promoted to "Privatdocent" in 1911 teaching 133: 361:
From 1915 to 1942 he was on a committee to judge school contests in mathematics, collecting problems for these contests, and organizing them. Then in 1933 he was elected as secretary of the society and in 1942 he became the chairman of this committee. He then decided to make edits in the society's
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prize in 1918. This prize was meant to be an endowment for young mathematicians, however was later devaluated. But the prize remained as a medal of high scientific recognition. In 1899, he published his first work while still attending High School in a journal
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Activity Group on Discrete Mathematics to an early career researcher for outstanding research in an area of discrete mathematics. The first award was given in 2008, and it had been given biennially thereafter.
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1911 – promoted to "Privatdocent" in 1911 teaching nomography, analysis situs (later to be known as topology), set theory, real numbers and functions, and graph theory
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took over the country. Days later on October 19, 1944, he committed suicide to evade persecution from the Nazis for being a Hungarian Jew.
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Kőnig's activities and lectures played a vital role in the growth of graph theoretical work of: László Egyed,
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in 1936. This marked the beginning of graph theory as its own branch of mathematics. Then in 1958,
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Translated by Richard McCoart; with commentary by W.T. Tutte.
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1935 – gained full professorship at Technische Hochschule
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journal during his time on the committee till his death.
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Budapest
Austria-Hungary
Graph theory
Gyula Kőnig
Mathematics
Technical University of Budapest
Doctoral advisor
József Kürschák
Hermann Minkowski
Tibor Gallai
graph theory
Budapest
Gyula Kőnig
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Paul Erdős
Gyula Kőnig
József Kürschák
Hermann Minkowski

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