Background
He was born in Döbeln and died in Halle.
mathematician university professor
He was born in Döbeln and died in Halle.
Grötzsch worked in graph theory. He was the discoverer and eponym of the Grötzsch graph, a triangle-free graph that requires four colors in any graph coloring, and Grötzsch"s theorem, the result that every triangle-free planar graph requires at most three colors. He also introduced the concept of a quasiconformal mapping.
He was one of Paul Koebe"s students.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
