Vojtěch Jarník

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Vojtěch Jarník (December 22, 1897September 22, 1970) was a Czech mathematician.

His main area of work was in number theory and mathematical analysis; he proved a number of results on lattice point problems. He also discovered the graph theory algorithm known as Prim's algorithm.

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  • V. Jarník: O jistém problému minimálním [About a certain minimal problem], Práce Moravské Přírodovědecké Společnosti, 6, 1930, pp. 57-63. (in Czech)

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