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Péter Komjáth

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Nationality
  
Hungarian

Fields
  
Mathematics

Name
  
Peter Komjath

Notable awards
  
Paul Erdos Prize


Role
  
Mathematician

Doctoral advisor
  
Andras Hajnal

Awards
  
Academy Prize

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Born
  
8 April 1953 (age 71) Budapest (
1953-04-08
)

Institutions
  
Eotvos Lorand University

Alma mater
  
Eotvos Lorand University

Books
  
Problems and theorems in classical set theory

Education
  
Eotvos Lorand University

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Péter Komjáth (born 8 April 1953) is a Hungarian mathematician, working in set theory, especially combinatorial set theory. Komjáth is a professor at the Eötvös Loránd University. He is currently a visiting faculty member at Emory University in the department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

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Komjáth won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1971. His Ph.D. advisor at Eötvös was András Hajnal, and he has two joint papers with Paul Erdős. He received the Paul Erdős Prize in 1990. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Selected publications

  • Komjáth, Péter and Vilmos Totik: Problems and Theorems in Classical Set Theory, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006. ISBN 0-387-30293-X
  • Komjáth, Péter (1988), "A simplified construction of nonlinear Davenport–Schinzel sequences", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 49 (2): 262–267, doi:10.1016/0097-3165(88)90055-6, MR 0964387 .
  • Komjáth, Péter (1988), "Consistency results on infinite graphs", Israel Journal of Mathematics, 61 (3): 285–294, doi:10.1007/BF02772573, MR 941243 .
  • Komjáth, Péter (2011), "The chromatic number of infinite graphs—A survey" (PDF), Discrete Mathematics, 311 (15): 1448–1450, doi:10.1016/j.disc.2010.11.004 .

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