Name Gabriel Dirac Role Mathematician | Education University of London | |
Died June 20, 1984, Arlesheim, Switzerland Books Cardinal-determining Subgraphs of Infinite Graphs | ||
Gabriel Andrew Dirac
Gabriel Andrew Dirac (13 March 1925 – 20 July 1984) was a mathematician who mainly worked in graph theory. He stated a sufficient condition for a graph to contain a Hamiltonian circuit. In 1951 he conjectured that n points in the plane, not all collinear, must span at least [n/2] two-point lines, where [x] is the largest integer not exceeding x. This conjecture is still open.
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Education
Dirac received his Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of London under Richard Rado.
Career
Dirac was professor of mathematics in the University of Aarhus in Denmark, and was also Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics (1962) at Trinity College Dublin in the mid-1960s.
Family
He was the stepson of Paul Dirac, who adopted him after marrying his mother Manci, and the nephew of Eugene Wigner. His biological father is Richard Balazs, and he has an older sister, and two younger half-sisters.