Biography:Zoltán Füredi

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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 Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004). He is a research professor of the Rényi Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Füredi received his Candidate of Sciences degree in mathematics in 1981 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.[1]

Some results

  • In infinitely many cases he determined the maximum number of edges in a graph with no C4.[2]
  • With Paul Erdős he proved that for some c>1, there are cd points in d-dimensional space such that all triangles formed from those points are acute.
  • With Imre Bárány he proved that no polynomial time algorithm determines the volume of convex bodies in dimension d within a multiplicative error dd.
  • He proved that there are at most [math]\displaystyle{ O(n\log n) }[/math] unit distances in a convex n-gon.[3]
  • In a paper written with coauthors he solved the Hungarian lottery problem.[4]
  • With Ilona Palásti he found the best known lower bounds on the orchard-planting problem of finding sets of points with many 3-point lines.[5]
  • He proved an upper bound on the ratio between the fractional matching number and the matching number in a hypergraph.[6]

References

  1. Zoltán Füredi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. Füredi, Zoltán (1983). "Graphs without quadrilaterals". Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B (Elsevier BV) 34 (2): 187–190. doi:10.1016/0095-8956(83)90018-7. ISSN 0095-8956. 
  3. Z. Füredi (1990). "The maximum number of unit distances in a convex n-gon". Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A 55 (2): 316–320. doi:10.1016/0097-3165(90)90074-7. 
  4. Z. Füredi, G. J. Székely, and Z. Zubor (1996). "On the lottery problem". Journal of Combinatorial Designs 4 (1): 5–10. doi:10.1002/(sici)1520-6610(1996)4:1<5::aid-jcd2>3.3.co;2-w.  [1] Reprint
  5. Füredi, Z.; Palásti, I. (1984). "Arrangements of lines with a large number of triangles". Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 92 (4): 561–566. doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1984-0760946-2. .
  6. Füredi, Zoltán (1981-06-01). "Maximum degree and fractional matchings in uniform hypergraphs" (in en). Combinatorica 1 (2): 155–162. doi:10.1007/BF02579271. ISSN 1439-6912. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02579271. 

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