Avraham Trahtman

Avraham Naumovich Trahtman
Born(1944-02-10)10 February 1944
Died17 July 2024(2024-07-17) (aged 80)
Alma materUral State University
Known forsolving the road coloring problem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsBar-Ilan University
Doctoral advisorLev N. Shevrin

Avraham Naumovich Trahtman (Trakhtman) (Russian: Абрам Наумович Трахтман; 10 February 1944 – 17 July 2024) was a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician and academic at Bar-Ilan University (Israel). In 2007, Trahtman solved a problem in combinatorics that had been open for 37 years, the Road Coloring Conjecture posed in 1970.[1] Trahtman died in Jerusalem on 17 July 2024, at the age of 80.[2]

  1. ^ J. E. Pin. On two combinatorial problems arising from automata theory. Annals of Discrete Math., 17, 535-548, 1983.
  2. ^ "Avraham Trakhtman 1944 – 2024". Forever Missed. Retrieved 5 August 2024.