Gyula Y. Katona (born 4 December 1965) is a Hungarian mathematician, the son of mathematician

Gyula O. H. Katona Gyula O. H. Katona (born 16 March 1941 in Budapest) is a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in combinatorial set theory, and especially for the Kruskal–Katona theorem In algebraic combinatorics, the Kruskal–Katona theorem gives a co ...

. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( hu, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. Its ma ...

, with a dissertation titled ''Paths and Cycles in Graphs and Hypergraphs'' under the advisement of László Lovász and András Recski, and is on the faculty of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Katona is the coauthor of three textbooks, ''Introduction to Computer Science'' (Typotex, Budapest, 2002), ''Introduction to Finite Mathematics'', (Eötvös L. University, Budapest, 1993), and ''Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Algorithms'' (Technical University of Budapest, 1993). In addition his research publications include several works on Hamiltonian cycles and related properties of graphs.

External links

Katona's web site

Katona at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
20th-century Hungarian mathematicians Combinatorialists Living people 1965 births {{europe-mathematician-stub