VÃctor Neumann-Lara
VÃctor Neumann-Lara (1933–2004) was a Mexican mathematician, pioneer in the field of graph theory in Mexico. His work also covers general topology, game theory and combinatorics. He has an ErdÅ‘s number of 2.
Biography
Born in the city of Huejutla de Reyes, Hidalgo, Mexico, he soon moved to Mexico City where he received his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the School of Sciences, UNAM.
His life was greatly devoted to teaching, giving over 100 courses in Mexico and around the world, and introducing new teaching methods. He carried color chalks with him all the time, and was prompt to give graphic explanations.
Work
Full Professor at Institute of Mathematics, UNAM, he directed over 15 theses and taught both in the Institute and in the Faculty of Sciences. Below is a selection of his multiple publications, which earned him over 120 citations from renowned mathematicians in the area of graph theory.
In 1982 he introduced the notion of dichromatic number of a digraph, which will eventually be used in kernel theory and tournament theory.
List of selected publications
- Francisco Larrión, VÃctor Neumann-Lara, Miguel A. Pizaña, Thomas Dale Porter "A hierarchy of self-clique graphs" Discrete Mathematics 282(1-3): 193-208 (2004)
- M. E. FrÃas-Armenta, VÃctor Neumann-Lara, Miguel A. Pizaña "Dismantlings and iterated clique graphs" Discrete Mathematics 282(1-3): 263-265 (2004)
- Xueliang Li, VÃctor Neumann-Lara, Eduardo Rivera-Campo "On a tree graph defined by a set of cycles" Discrete Mathematics 271(1-3): 303-310 (2003)
- Juan José Montellano-Ballesteros, VÃctor Neumann-Lara "An Anti-Ramsey Theorem" Combinatorica 22(3): 445-449 (2002)
- Francisco Larrión, VÃctor Neumann-Lara "On clique divergent graphs with linear growth" Discrete Mathematics 245(1-3): 139-153 (2002)
- Francisco Larrión, VÃctor Neumann-Lara, Miguel A. Pizaña "Whitney triangulations, local girth and iterated clique graphs" Discrete Mathematics 258(1-3): 123-135 (2002)
- Francisco Larrión, VÃctor Neumann-Lara, Miguel A. Pizaña "On the homotopy type of the clique graph" J. Braz. Comp. Soc. 7(3): 69-73 (2001)
- Francisco Larrión, VÃctor Neumann-Lara "Locally C6 graphs are clique divergent" Discrete Mathematics 215: 159-170 (2000)
- Manuel Abellanas, G. Hernandez, Rolf Klein, VÃctor Neumann-Lara, Jorge Urrutia "A Combinatorial Property of Convex Sets" Discrete & Computational Geometry 17(3): 307-318 (1997)
- Manuel Abellanas, G. Hernandez, Rolf Klein, VÃctor Neumann-Lara, Jorge Urrutia "Voronoi Diagrams and Containment of Families of Convex Sets on the Plane" Symposium on Computational Geometry 71-78 (1995)
- Jorge L. Arocha, Javier Bracho, VÃctor Neumann-Lara "Tight and Untight Triangulations of Surfaces by Complete Graphs" J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B 63(2): 185-199 (1995)
- VÃctor Neumann-Lara, Eduardo Rivera-Campo "Spanning trees with bounded degrees" Combinatorica 11(1): 55-61 (1991)
- Roland Häggkvist, Pavol Hell, Donald J. Miller, VÃctor Neumann-Lara "On multiplicative graphs and the product conjecture" Combinatorica 8(1): 63-74 (1988)
- VÃctor Neumann-Lara, H. Galeana-Sánchez "On kernel-perfect critical digraphs" Discrete Math. 59: 257-265 (1986)
- VÃctor Neumann-Lara, N. Santorro, Jorge Urrutia "Uniquely colourable m-dichromatic oriented graphs" Discrete Math. 62: 65-70 (1986)
- VÃctor Neumann-Lara, Luis Montejano "A variation of Menger's theorem for long paths" J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 36: 213-217 (1984)
- VÃctor Neumann-Lara, Jorge Urrutia "Vertex critical r-dichromatic tournaments" Discrete Math. 49: 83-87 (1984)
- VÃctor Neumann-Lara, H. Galeana-Sanchez "On kernels and semikernels of digraphs" Discrete Math. 48: 67-76 (1984)
- VÃctor Neumann-Lara "The dichromatic number of a digraph" J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 33: 265-270 (1982)
- VÃctor Neumann-Lara "k-Hamiltonian graphs with given girth" Colloq. Math. Soc. János Bolyai 10: 1133-1142 (1975)
External links
- Graph Theory white pages
- A short biography in Spanish
- VÃctor Neumann-Lara at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- VÃctor Neumann-Lara's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier