The Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics () is the

research institute A research institute, research centre, or research organization is an establishment founded for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research. Although the term often implies natural ...

in mathematics of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( , MTA) is Hungary’s foremost and most prestigious learned society. Its headquarters are located along the banks of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. The Academy's primar ...

. It was created in 1950 by

Alfréd Rényi Alfréd Rényi (20 March 1921 – 1 February 1970) was a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in probability theory, though he also made contributions in combinatorics, graph theory, and number theory. Life Rényi was born in Budapest to A ...

, who directed it until his death. Since its creation, the institute has been the center of mathematical research in Hungary. It received the title ''Centre of Excellence of the European Union'' (2001). The current director is András Stipsicz. The institute publishes the research journal Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica.

Research divisions and research groups

* Algebra (head: Mátyás Domokos) * Algebraic geometry and differential topology (head: András Némethi) * Algebraic Logic (head:

Hajnal Andréka Hajnal Ilona Andréka (also known as Hajnalka Andréka, born November 17, 1947) is a Hungarian mathematician specializing in algebraic logic. She is a research professor emeritus at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian A ...

) * Analysis (head: András Kroó) * Combinatorics and discrete mathematics (head: Ervin Győri) * Geometry (head: Gábor Fejes Tóth) * Number theory (head: János Pintz) * Probability & statistics (head: Péter Major) * Set theory and general topology (head: Lajos Soukup) * Cryptology (head: Gábor Tardos) * Financial Mathematics (Momentum research group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, head: Miklós Rásonyi) * Groups and Graphs (Momentum research group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, European Research Council research group, head: Miklós Abért) * Limits of Structures (Momentum research group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, European Research Council research group, head: Balázs Szegedy) * Low Dimensional Topology (Momentum research group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, European Research Council research group, head: András Stipsicz) * Regularity (European Research Council research group, head:

Endre Szemerédi Endre Szemerédi (; born August 21, 1940) 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 a ...

) * Discrete and Convex Geometry (European Research Council research group, head: Imre Bárány) * Didactics (head: Péter Juhász)

Name

The institute's name originally was Applied Mathematics Institute of the HAS () then Mathematical Research Institute of the HAS (). It obtained its current name on 1 July 1999 after

, the eminent mathematician who founded the institute and was its director for 20 years.

Some of the notable researchers

* Imre Bárány, combinatorialist, geometer, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences *

Imre Csiszár Imre Csiszár () is a Hungarian mathematician with contributions to information theory and probability theory. In 1996 he won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest annual award given in the field of information theory. He was born on 7 Feb ...

, information theorist, Shannon Award, Dobrushin Prize, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences *

Zoltán Füredi Zoltán Füredi (Budapest, Hungary, 21 May 1954) is a Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics, mainly in discrete geometry and extremal combinatorics. He was a student of Gyula O. H. Katona. He is a corresponding member of the Hungari ...

, combinatorialist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences *

Tibor Gallai Tibor Gallai (born Tibor Grünwald, 15 July 1912 – 2 January 1992) was a Hungarian mathematician. He worked in combinatorics, especially in graph theory, and was a lifelong friend and collaborator of Paul Erdős. He was a student of Dénes K� ...

, combinatorialist * András Hajnal, set theorist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences * István Juhász, working in set theoretical topology, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences *

Imre Lakatos Imre Lakatos (, ; ; 9 November 1922 – 2 February 1974) was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science, known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its "methodology of proofs and refutations" in its pre-axiomatic stage ...

, philosopher of mathematics and science * Péter Major, probability theorist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences *

Katalin Marton Katalin Marton (9 December 1941 – 13 December 2019) was a Hungarian mathematician, born in Budapest. Education and career Marton obtained her PhD from Eötvös Loránd University in 1965 and worked at the Department of Numerical Mathemati ...

, information theorist, Shannon Award * Péter Pál Pálfy, algebra, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences * János Pintz, number theorist, ''AMS Cole Prize,'' member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences * Lajos Pósa, combinatorialist, educator * László Pyber, algebra, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences * Imre Z. Ruzsa, number theorist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences *

Miklós Simonovits Miklós Simonovits (4 September 1943 in Budapest) is a Hungarian mathematician who currently works at the Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Budapest and is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is on the advisory board of the journa ...

, combinatorialist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences * Vera T. Sós, combinatorialist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences * András Stipsicz, low dimensional topologist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences *

, combinatorialist, Abel Prize 2012., member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences * Gábor Tardos, combinatorialist *

Gábor Tusnády Gábor (sometimes written Gabor) may refer to: * Gábor (given name) * Gabor (surname) * Gabor sisters, the three famous actresses, Eva, Magda and Zsa Zsa * Several scientific terms named after Dennis Gabor ** Gabor atom ** Gabor filter, a linear ...

, probability theory, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Directors

(1950–1970) *

László Fejes Tóth László Fejes Tóth (, ; 12 March 1915 – 17 March 2005) was a Hungarian mathematician who specialized in geometry. He proved that a lattice pattern is the most efficient way to pack centrally symmetric convex sets on the Euclidean plane (a ge ...

(1970–1982) * András Hajnal (1982–1992) * Domokos Szász (1993–1995) * Gyula O. H. Katona (1996–2005) * Péter Pál Pálfy (2006–2018). * András Stipsicz (2019–).

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