Biography:András Sárközy

Short description: Hungarian mathematician

András Sárközy (born (1941-01-16) January 16, 1941 in Budapest) is a Hungarian mathematician, working in analytic and combinatorial number theory, although his first works were in the fields of geometry and classical analysis. He has the largest number of papers co-authored with Paul Erdős (a total of 62); he has an Erdős number of one. He proved the Furstenberg–Sárközy theorem that every sequence of natural numbers with positive upper density contains two members whose difference is a full square. He was elected a corresponding member (1998), and a full member (2004) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He received the Széchenyi Prize (2010). He is the father of the mathematician Gábor N. Sárközy.

References

• C. L. Stewart (2000). "András Sárközy - a retrospective on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday". University of Waterloo. https://uwaterloo.ca/pure-mathematics/sites/ca.pure-mathematics/files/uploads/files/per-math-hung-2001b.pdf.