Siemion Fajtlowicz is a
Polish
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-American
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
, formerly a professor at the
University of Houston
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. He is known for creating and developing the
conjecture
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-making computer program
Graffiti
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.
[.]
Fajtlowicz received his
Ph.D.
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in 1967 or 1968 from the
Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
The Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences is a research institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[Edward Marczewski
Edward Marczewski (15 November 1907 – 17 October 1976) was a Polish mathematician. He was born Szpilrajn but changed his name while hiding from Nazi persecution.
Marczewski was a member of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. His life and work aft ...]
.
[.]
References
External links
Siemion Fajtlowicz
at Graph Theory White Pages
Archived copy of home page at UH
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century Polish mathematicians
21st-century Polish mathematicians
Graph theorists
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