Zsolt Baranyai (June 23, 1948 in
Budapest
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– April 6, 1978) was a
Hungarian mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
known for his work in
combinatorics.
He graduated from
Fazekas High School where he was a classmate of
László Lovász
László Lovász (; born March 9, 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly with Avi Wigderson. He wa ...
,
Miklós Laczkovich
Miklós Laczkovich (born 21 February 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician mainly noted for his work on real analysis and geometric measure theory. His most famous result is the solution of Tarski's circle-squaring problem in 1989.Ruthen, R. (1989 ...
, and
Lajos Pósa. He studied mathematics at
Eötvös Loránd University and went on to become a lecturer in the Analysis Department. He earned his Ph.D. in 1975 and was posthumously awarded the
Candidate degree of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1978.
Baranyai is best known for his
theorem
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on the decompositions of complete
hypergraph
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Formally, an undirected hypergraph H is a pair H = (X,E) w ...
, which solved a long-standing open problem. In addition to his mathematical pursuits, Baranyai was also a professional musician who played the
recorder
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. He died while touring Hungary with the Bakfark Consort in a car accident after a concert.
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References
External links
A Panorama of Hungarian Mathematics in the Twentieth Century p. 567.
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1948 births
1978 deaths
20th-century Hungarian mathematicians
Combinatorialists
Road incident deaths in Hungary