Anton Kotzig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Anton Kotzig

Canadian mathematician

Date of Birth: 22-Oct-1919

Place of Birth: Kočovce, Trenčín Region, Slovakia

Date of Death: 20-Apr-1991

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Anton Kotzig (22 October 1919 – 20 April 1991) was a Slovak–Canadian mathematician, expert in statistics, combinatorics and graph theory. The Ringel–Kotzig conjecture on graceful labeling of trees is named after him and Gerhard Ringel. Kotzig's theorem on the degrees of vertices in convex polyhedra is also named after him.