Herbert Grötzsch
German mathematician
Died when: 90 years 359 days (1091 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Camillo Herbert Grötzsch (21 May 1902 – 15 May 1993) was a German mathematician.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.
A student of Paul Koebe, he made important contributions to the theory of conformal mappings and univalent functions: he was the first to introduce the concept of a quasiconformal mapping.
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