Zdeněk Hedrlín (1933 – April 22, 2018) was a Czech mathematician, specializing in
universal algebra
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For instance, rather than take particular groups as the object of stu ...
and combinatorial theory, both in pure and applied mathematics.
Zdeněk Hedrlín received his PhD from Prague's
Charles University in 1963. His thesis on commutative semigroups was supervised by
Miroslav Katětov.
Hedrlín held the title of
''Docent'' (associated professor) at Charles University. There he worked at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics for over 60 years until he died at age 85. He was among the first Czech mathematicians to do research on
category theory.
In 1970 Hedrlín was an Invited Speaker at the
International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice. In the later part of his career, he focused on applications of relational structures and led very successful special and interdisciplinary seminars. Applications to biological cell behavior earned him and his students a European grant.
[ (He and his students worked on computational cell models of cancer.)
Hedrlín was a member of the editorial board of the '']Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
The ''Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering that part of algebra likely to be of general mathematical interest: algebraic results with immediate applications, and the development of algebraic ...
''. His Erdős number
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is 1.Vojtěch Rödl
Vojtěch Rödl (born 1 April 1949) is a Czech American mathematician, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor at Emory University. He is noted for his contributions mainly to combinatorics having authored hundreds of research papers.
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20th-century Czech mathematicians
21st-century Czech mathematicians
Czech mathematicians
Category theorists
Combinatorialists
Charles University alumni
Academic staff of Charles University
1933 births
2018 deaths