Peter Frankl (born 1953) is a Hungarian mathematician, street performer, columnist and educator active in Japan, where he has lived since 1988. He works in extremal combinatorics, wrote seven joint papers with Paul Erdos and eleven with Ronald Graham, and in 1979 proposed the union-closed sets conjecture that now carries his name. He won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1971. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionResearch in extremal combinatorics; proposed the union-closed sets conjecture (also called Frankl's conjecture) in 1979. 1 AwardGold medal, International Mathematical Olympiad (1971) 1 Connections
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Source Union-Closed Sets Conjecture (Wikipedia)
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Born (1953-03-26) 26 March 1953 Hungary
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mathematician, street performer, columnist and educator, active in Japan
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Frankl won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1971.
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WikipediaConjectures Posed: Union-Closed Sets Conjecture, History sectionQuote, Conjectures Posed: Union-Closed Sets Conjecture, History section
Peter Frankl stated the conjecture in terms of intersection-closed set families in 1979
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