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.
He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2012.[2]
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)[3]
- 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.
- ↑ "Endre Szemerédi". Academia Europaea. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019.
- ↑ 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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