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Endre Szemeredi

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Endre Szemeredi is a Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist, born on 21 August 1940, who works in combinatorics and theoretical computer science. He is State of New Jersey Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at Rutgers University, where he served from 1986, and holds emeritus status at the Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He won the Abel Prize in 2012. His discoveries include Szemeredi's theorem, the Szemeredi regularity lemma, the Erdos-Szemeredi theorem, the Hajnal-Szemeredi theorem and the Szemeredi-Trotter theorem.

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1. Endre Szemerédi (Wikipedia)
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    He is the State of New Jersey Professor of Computer Science Eme
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    is a Hungarian-American mathematician
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    combinatorics
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Szemeredi regularity lemma, Wikipedia
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In extremal graph theory, Szemerédi's regularity lemma states that a graph can be partitioned into a bounded number of parts so that the edges between parts
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Crossing Number Inequality (Wikipedia)
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and was discovered independently by Ajtai, Chvátal, Newborn, and Szemerédi
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Corners theorem (Wikipedia)
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. It was first proved by Miklós Ajtai and Endre Szemerédi in 1974 using Szemerédi's theorem. In 2003, József Solymosi gave a short proof using the triangle removal lemma.
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Equitable coloring (Wikipedia)
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The Hajnal-Szemerédi theorem, posed as a conjecture by Paul Erdős (1964) and proven by András Hajnal and Endre Szemerédi (1970), states that
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