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Polish-American mathematician
Jan Mycielski
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Polish-American mathematician
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Place of birth
Wiśniowa, Strzyżów County, Poland
Age
92 years
Education
University of Wrocław,
Awards
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
Stefan Banach Prize
(1965)
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Biography
Jan Mycielski (born February 7, 1932 in Wiśniowa, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland) is a Polish-American mathematician, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Academic career
Mycielski received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wrocław in 1957 under the supervision of StanisławHartman
. His dissertation was entitled "Applications of Free Groups to Geometrical Constructions". Following positions at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the University of California, Berkeley, and Case Western Reserve University, he took a permanent faculty position at Colorado in 1969.Contributions
Among the mathematical concepts named after Mycielski are:
- The Ehrenfeucht–Mycielski sequence, a sequence of binary digits with pseudorandom properties
- The Mycielskian, a construction for embedding any undirected graph into a larger graph with strictly higher chromatic number without creating any additional triangles.
- The Mycielski–Grötzsch graph, the Mycielskian of the 5-cycle, an 11-vertex triangle-free graph that is the smallest possible triangle-free graph requiring four colors.
- Mycielski's theorem that there exist triangle-free graphs with arbitrarily large chromatic number.
Awards and honors
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Selected works
- 1991. A Note on S. M. Ulam's Mathematics.
- A note in Adventures of a Mathematician. Stanislaw Ulam. University of California Press, 1991. ISBN 0520071549
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Notable Polish people in academia
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Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
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Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
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Notable Polish Mathematicians
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
Notable American Mathematicians
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
Notable Polish Philosophers
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
Notable American Philosophers
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
Notable Polish Professors
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
Notable American Professors
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
Notable Polish Educators
Gender: Male, Born in: Years 1930 to 1969
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