Gyula Y. Katona (born 4 December 1965) is a Hungarian

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, the son of mathematician Gyula O. H. Katona. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from

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, with a dissertation titled ''Paths and Cycles in Graphs and Hypergraphs'' under the advisement of

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and

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, and is on the faculty of the

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. Katona is the coauthor of three textbooks, ''Introduction to Computer Science'' (Typotex, Budapest, 2002), ''Introduction to Finite Mathematics'', (Eötvös L. University, Budapest, 1993), and ''Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Algorithms'' (Technical University of Budapest, 1993). In addition his research publications include several works on

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s and related properties of graphs.

External links

Katona's web site

Katona at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
20th-century Hungarian mathematicians Combinatorialists Living people 1965 births {{europe-mathematician-stub