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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Endre Szemeredi

Endre Szemerédi is a Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist, working 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.

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason. — © Endre Szemeredi
You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason.
I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.
Too much knowledge could be a bad thing. I was lead to the Szemerédi theorem by proving a result, about squares, that Euler had already proven, and I relied on an "obvious" fact, about arithmetical progressions, that was unproved at the time. But that lead me to try and prove that formerly unproved statement- about arithmetical progressions-and that ultimately lead to the Szemerédi Theorem.
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