Endre Szemerédi
Hungarian-American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist
Endre Szemerédi (born August 21, 1940) is a Hungarian-American[1] mathematician. He worked in the field of combinatorics and theoretical computer science. He has been the State of New Jersey Professor of computer science at Rutgers University since 1986.
Endre Szemerédi | |
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 Endre Szemerédi | |
| Born | August 21, 1940 |
| Nationality | Hungarian American |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University |
| Awards | Abel Prize (2012) Széchenyi Prize (2012) Rolf Schock Prizes (2008) Leroy P. Steele Prize (2008) George Pólya Prize (1975) Alfréd Rényi Prize (1973) Member of the National Academy of Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Combinatorics Computer science Mathematics Theoretical computer science |
| Institutions | Rutgers University |
| Doctoral advisor | Israel Gelfand |
| Doctoral students | Jaikumar Radhakrishnan Gabor Sarkozy |
He also holds a professor emeritus status at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Awards and honors
changeSzemerédi has won numerous awards and honors for his contribution to mathematics and computer science. A few of them are listed here:
- Grünwald Prize (1967)
- Grünwald Prize (1968)
- Rényi Prize (1973)
- George Pólya Prize for Achievement in Applied Mathematics (SIAM), (1975)
- Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1979)
- State of New Jersey Professorship (1986)
- The Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (AMS), (2008)
- The Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics for deep and pioneering work from 1975 on arithmetic progressions in subsets of the integers (2008)[2]
- The Széchenyi Prize of the Hungarian Republic for his many fundamental contributions to mathematics and computer science (2012)
- The Abel Prize for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science (2012)
References
change- ↑ "Magyar tudós kapta a matematika Nobel-díját" (in Hungarian). Népszava. March 21, 2012. Archived from the original on June 10, 2012. Retrieved April 19, 2012.
- ↑ Major US Maths Prize Given to HAS Full Member[permanent dead link], Hungarian Academy of Sciences, January 9, 2008.
Other websites
change- Personal Homepage at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
- Grime, James; Hodge, David (2012). "6,000,000: Endre Szemerédi wins the Abel Prize". Numberphile. Brady Haran. Archived from the original on 2014-01-09. Retrieved 2018-05-21.
- Interview by Gabot Stockert (translated from the Hungarian into English by Zsuzsanna Dancso)
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