Claude Jacques Berge (5 June 1926 to 30 June 2002) was a French mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory. The second of six children of the physician and psychoanalyst André Berge, he attended the École des Roches and then studied mathematics at the University of Paris, where his doctoral advisor was André Lichnerowicz. He began publishing in 1950, and his first major paper introduced a new symbolic calculus combining generating functions and Laplace transforms, which he applied to combinatorial analysis, Bernoulli numbers and difference equations. He kept a lifelong love of literature alongside his mathematics.
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was a French mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory
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He was the son of René Berge, a mining engineer, and Antoinette Faure.
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5 June 1926
Berge's Theorem (Wikipedia)
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It was proven by French mathematician Claude Berge in 1957 (though already observed by Petersen in 1891 and Kőnig in 1931).
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It was proven by French mathematician Claude Berge in 1957 (though already observed by Petersen in 1891 and Kőnig in 1931).
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Tutte (who proved Tutte's theorem) and Claude Berge (who proved its generalization).
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It is a generalization of Tutte's theorem on perfect matchings, and is named after W. T. Tutte (who proved Tutte's theorem) and Claude Berge (who proved its generalization).
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The statement was first proven by Claude Berge in 1959.
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