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December 22, 1897
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September 22, 1970
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Vojtěch Jarník was a mathematician born on December 22, 1897, in Prague . He was a citizen of Austria-Hungary , Czechoslovakia , and Czechoslovak Socialist Republic . Jarník studied at Charles University and was mentored by his doctoral advisor, Edmund Landau .
Throughout his career, Vojtěch Jarník supervised several doctoral students, including Jaroslav Kurzweil , Miroslav Katětov , and Tibor Šalát . Jarník's notable work includes Prim's algorithm , which is a method for finding the minimum spanning tree in a connected, undirected graph.
Vojtěch Jarník passed away on September 22, 1970, in Prague .
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