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Endre Szemerédi

Hungarian American mathematician
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Endre Szemerédi
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Category: Science & Tech
Born:
August 21, 1940, Budapest, Hungary (age 83)
Awards And Honors:
Abel Prize (2012)
Subjects Of Study:
Szemerédi’s regularity lemma
Szemerédi’s theorem
arithmetic progression
Ajtai-Komlós-Szemerédi sorting network
graph theory
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Endre Szemerédi (born August 21, 1940, Budapest, Hungary) Hungarian American mathematician awarded the 2012 Abel Prize “for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science.” Szemerédi originally studied to become a doctor, but he soon dropped out of medical school and took a job in a factory. He then entered Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, where he studied under Paul Erdős. He received a master’s degree in mathematics in 1965. He then earned a doctorate in mathematics at Moscow State University in 1970. He became a fellow at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy ...(100 of 480 words)

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