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Endre SzemerediHungarian mathematician
Date of Birth: 21.08.1940
Country:  Hungary |
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A Biography of Endre Szemerédi
Endre Szemerédi is a Hungarian mathematician who specializes in combinatorics and theoretical computer science. He was awarded the Abel Prize in 2012 for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and the theory of computing, as well as his deep and long-lasting impact on additive number theory and ergodic theory.
Early Life and Education
Endre Szemerédi was born on August 21, 1940, in Budapest, Hungary. He initially pursued a career in medicine and worked in a factory for a year before switching to mathematics. Szemerédi studied at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest, where he obtained his master's degree in 1965. He then moved to the Moscow State University, under the guidance of Israel Gelfand, and earned his Ph.D. in 1970.
Career
Szemerédi is a permanent research fellow at the Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He also holds a position as a professor of computer science at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Throughout his career, Szemerédi has held various visiting positions, including Stanford University (1974), McGill University in Montreal (1980), University of South Carolina (1981-1983), and the University of Chicago (1985-1986). He was a Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology in 1987-1988 and held a professorship at the Aisenstadt Chair at the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques at the University of Montreal. In 2008, Szemerédi was a professor at the Eisenbud Chair in the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley.
Awards and Recognitions
Szemerédi has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the Grünwald Prize in 1967 and 1968, the Rényi Prize in 1973, the Pólya Prize in 1975, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Prize in 1979, the Leroy P. Steele Prize in 2008, the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize in 2008, and the Abel Prize in 2012.
