Endre Szemerédi
Video Chapters
- Highlights (2:04)
- Early Work in Combinatorial Number Theory (2:09)
- Family Pressure to be a Physician (3:52)
- Helping Your Children Choose Careers (6:39)
- Influence of Paul Erdos on Mathematics in Hungary (7:28)
- The Beauty of the Sunflower Problem (5:27)
- Methods for Solving Combinatorial Problems (5:08)
- Heilbronn Triangle Problem (8:04)
- Incidence Relations Between Points and Lines (3:20)
- The Projective Plane and the Real Plane (1:57)
- The Pervasive Presence of Combinatorics in Mathematics (5:55)
- Theory Building vs Problem Solving (5:53)
- General Methods in Combinations (4:09)
- Semi-random method (5:12)
- Unsolved Probabilistic Problems (7:14)
- Collaboration with Ajtai and Komlos (3:08)
- Graduate Work in Moscow with Gelfand (5:35)
- Relationship with Gelfand (7:06)
- Presenting Combinatorics Dissertation at Gelfand Seminar (4:41)
- Szemerédi Theorem (9:29)
- Four-term progressions (4:25)
- Szemerédi Regularity Lemma (9:39)
- The Ubiquitous Use of Great Insights (2:31)
- Impact of the Regularity Lemma (4:13)
- Working Away From Home (7:43)
- Work Habits (3:14)
- Math Education in Hungary Today (9:30)
- Mathematics in Hungary (3:01)
- How to Become a Mathematician (6:32)
Endre Szemerédi is a Hungarian-American mathematician who has made several discoveries in combinatorics and computer science. He has won several awards, including the 2012 Abel Prize, and holds appointments at Rutgers University and the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Learn more about the remarkable achievements of Szemerédi, as interviewed by Avi Wigderson, in this video. It is indexed by topic on a play list for convenient browsing.
