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Rudolf Halin

Rudolf Halin

German mathematician

Rudolf Halin (February 3, 1934 – November 14, 2014) was a German graph theorist, known for defining the ends of infinite graphs,[1] for Halin's grid theorem,[2][3] for extending Menger's theorem to infinite graphs,[4] and for his early research on treewidth and tree decomposition.[5] He is also the namesake of Halin graphs, a class of planar graphs constructed from trees by adding a cycle through the leaves of the given tree; earlier researchers had studied the subclass of cubic Halin graphs but Halin was the first to study this class of graphs in full generality.[6]

Life

Halin was born on February 3, 1934, in Uerdingen.[7] He earned his doctorate from the University of Cologne in 1962, under the supervision of Klaus Wagner and Karl Dörge, after which he joined the faculty of the University of Hamburg.[8] He died on November 14, 2014, in Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein.[7]

Recognition

In February 1994, a colloquium was held at the University of Hamburg in honor of Halin's 60th birthday.[9] In 2017, a special issue of the journal Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg was published in his memory.[10]

Selected publications

Research papers

  • Halin, R. (1964), "Über unendliche Wege in Graphen", Mathematische Annalen, 157 (2): 125–137, doi:10.1007/bf01362670, hdl:10338.dmlcz/102294, MR 0170340, S2CID 122125458.
  • Halin, R. (1965), "Über die Maximalzahl fremder unendlicher Wege in Graphen", Mathematische Nachrichten, 30 (1–2): 63–85, doi:10.1002/mana.19650300106, MR 0190031.
  • Halin, R. (1971), "Studies on minimally n-connected graphs", Combinatorial Mathematics and its Applications (Proc. Conf., Oxford, 1969), London: Academic Press, pp. 129–136, MR 0278980.
  • Halin, R. (1974), "A note on Menger's theorem for infinite locally finite graphs", Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg, 40: 111–114, doi:10.1007/BF02993589, MR 0335355, S2CID 120915644.
  • Halin, R. (1976), "S-functions for graphs", Journal of Geometry, 8 (1–2): 171–186, doi:10.1007/BF01917434, MR 0444522, S2CID 120256194.

Textbooks

  • Halin, R., Graphentheorie. Vols. I and II published in 1980 and 1981 respectively by Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.[11] Combined 2nd ed. published in 1989 by Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.[12]

References

  1. [1]
    Halin (1964).
  2. [2]
    Halin (1965).
  3. [3]
    Diestel, Reinhard (2004), "A short proof of Halin's grid theorem", Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg, 74: 237–242, doi:10.1007/BF02941538, MR 2112834, S2CID 124603912.
  4. [4]
    Halin (1974).
  5. [5]
    Halin (1976).
  6. [6]
    Halin (1971).
  7. [7]
    Diestel, Reinhard (December 7, 2014), Rudolf Halin 1934–2014, DMANET mailing list. Date corrected in a follow-up email from Diestel. Birthplace from his books Graphentheorie I, II.
  8. [8]
    Rudolf Halin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  9. [9]
    Mathematisches Seminar, Univ. of Hamburg, retrieved 2013-02-19.
  10. [10]
    Diestel, Reinhard (2017), "Rudolf Halin: 1934–2014", Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg, 87 (2): 197–202, doi:10.1007/s12188-016-0161-2, MR 3696145
  11. [11]
    Vol. I, ISBN 3-534-06767-3. Reviewed by W. Dörfler, MR0586234. Vol. II, ISBN 3-534-06767-3. Reviewed by W. Dörfler, MR0668698.
  12. [12]
    ISBN 3-534-10140-5. MR1068314.
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