Tomasz Łuczak (born 13 March 1963 in

Poznań Poznań ( ) is a city on the Warta, River Warta in west Poland, within the Greater Poland region. The city is an important cultural and business center and one of Poland's most populous regions with many regional customs such as Saint John's ...

) is a Polish

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and

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Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań The Adam Mickiewicz University (; Latin: ''Universitas Studiorum Mickiewicziana Posnaniensis'') is a research university in Poznań, Poland. Due to its history, the university is traditionally considered among Poland's most reputable institution ...

and

Emory University Emory University is a private university, private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. Its main campu ...

. His main field of research is

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and as an end to obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many ...

, specifically

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, such as

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s, and their

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. Under supervision of Michał Karoński, Łuczak earned his doctorate at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 1987. In 1991, he received the Kuratowski Prize and the following year, he was awarded the

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. In 1997, he won the prestigious

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for his work on the theory of random discrete structures.

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External links

Website at Emory University

Website at Adam Mickiewicz University
1963 births Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań alumni Academic staff of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Combinatorialists Emory University faculty Living people Scientists from Atlanta Polish mathematicians {{Poland-scientist-stub