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Štefan Znám

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Slovak mathematician and mathematics professor, (February 9, 1936 - July 17, 1993), posed Znám's problem.

His Erdős number is 2 by at least six different paths. For example, in 1968, Znám wrote a paper on "Strongly geodetic graphs" with Juraj Bosák in the Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Three years later, Bosák co-authored "Decompositions of complete graphs into factors with diameter two" with Erdős and Alexander Rosa in Mathematics Casopis Slovene Akademie Vied.

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Other names:

Stefan Znám, Stefan Znam

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Cross-references: diameter, factors, complete graphs, decompositions, theory, graphs, paths, number, Znám's problem
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AMS MSC:	01A60 (History and biography :: History of mathematics and mathematicians :: 20th century)
	01A70 (History and biography :: History of mathematics and mathematicians :: Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies)

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