Vojtěch Jarník, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vojtěch Jarník

Czech academic, mathematician and university educator

Date of Birth: 22-Dec-1897

Place of Birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 22-Sep-1970

Profession: mathematician, pedagogue, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Vojtech Jarník (Czech pronunciation: ['vojc?x 'jar?i?k]; 1897–1970) was a Czech mathematician who worked for many years as a professor and administrator at Charles University, and helped found the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
He is the namesake of Jarník's algorithm for minimum spanning trees. Jarník worked in number theory, mathematical analysis, and graph algorithms.
He has been called "probably the first Czechoslovak mathematician whose scientific works received wide and lasting international response".
As well as developing Jarník's algorithm, he found tight bounds on the number of lattice points on convex curves, studied the relationship between the Hausdorff dimension of sets of real numbers and how well they can be approximated by rational numbers, and investigated the properties of nowhere-differentiable functions.