Mathematician:Vojtěch Jarník

Mathematician

Czech mathematician who worked mainly in number theory and analysis.

Also produced some results in lattice theory and graph theory.

Nationality

Czech

History

• Born: 22 Dec 1897, Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic)
• Died: 22 Sept 1970, Prague, Czechoslovakia

Theorems and Definitions

• 1930: The Jarník Algorithm, also known as the DJP Algorithm, Prim's Algorithm or the Prim-Jarník Algorithm (independently of Edsger Wybe Dijkstra and Robert Clay Prim)

Results named for Vojtěch Jarník can be found here.

Publications

• 1930: O jistém problému minimálním (About a certain minimal problem)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Vojtěch Jarník": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive