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This is the story of a man named Vašek.

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  1. Computer Science, McGill University, 3480 University, Montreal, H3A 2A7, QC, Canada

    David Avis & Bruce Reed

  2. Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, Domaine de Gerland, 50 avenue Tony Garnier, 69366, Lyon Cedex 07, France

    Adrian Bondy

  3. Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech, 765 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA

    William Cook

  4. Project Mascotte, INRIA +CNRS (Lab I3S), Sophia Antipolis, France

    Bruce Reed

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Avis, D., Bondy, A., Cook, W. et al. Vašek Chvátal: A Very Short Introduction. Graphs and Combinatorics 23 (Suppl 1), 41–65 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00373-007-0721-4

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