Endre Szemerédi

Endre Szemerédi (born August 21, 1940) is a Hungarian-American 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. 

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.

Awards and honors
Szemerédi 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)Major US Maths Prize Given to HAS Full Member, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, January 9, 2008.
 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

Other websites
 Personal Homepage at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics

 Interview by Gabot Stockert (translated from the Hungarian into English by Zsuzsanna Dancso)

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