Václav Chvátal in 2024

Václav Chvátal in 2024

Mother Anežka Chvátalová, née Kaňáková, as a student at the girls' real grammar school, 7 September 1923

Mum Anežka Kaňáková during her maiden days

Mother Anežka Chvátalová, née Kaňáková

Josef Chvátal, paternal grandfather, as a legionary - on the photo lying on the left bottom

Václav Chvátal as a one-year-old boy with his brother Josef, 1947

Václav Chvátal as a three-year-old boy in Prague

Václav Chvátal in his youth after moving from Prague to Pilsen

Václav Chvátal in Montréal, 1973

Ten years old Václav Chvátal in Pilsen

Václav Chvátal with his parents at his graduation in Karolinum, 1968

Václav Chvátal on the balcony of his first apartment in Montréal, 1971

Mathematicians: Václav Chvátal, Victor Klee and Frenk Harary, probably 1976

Václav Chvátal and the Hungarian mathematician George Pólya on their way to the seminar, probably 1975

Václav Chvátal, Ronald Graham, Pál Erdős, Claude Berge (bottom row) and others probably at a conference in Paris, 1976

Václav Chvátal in a bar with the hostess Fumiko Yano, to whom he dedicated an article together with the Japanese mathematician Jin Akiyama, probably 1976

Václav Chvátal, Najiba Sbihi and Bill Cook, with whom he worked on the traveling salesman problem, after his student's Ph.D. exam

Painter François de Lucy, friend of Václav Chvátal, with his second wife Denisse Lyoté

Václav Chvátal with Denisse Lyoté, wife of the painter François de Lucy, after many years

Maternal grandfather Karel Kaňák as a legionary, 25 June 1917

Mathematicians Ronald Graham, Jin Akiyama, Rowin Wilson (son of British politician Harold Wilson) and an unknown geisha in Tokyo

From left: Umemori, Fumiko Yano, Václav Chvátal, Jin Akiyama and an unknown couple in Tokyo, 1977

Second wife Markéta Chvátalová, née Vyskočilová, with her father Ivan Vyskočil in his Stupid Game, 15 November 1989

Václav Chvátal in Bonn under the sign "schmuck", which means "silly" in Yiddish, 1990