György Elekes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

György Elekes

Hungarian mathematician

Date of Birth: 19-May-1949

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 29-Sep-2008

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About György Elekes

  • György Elekes (19 May 1949 – 29 September 2008) was a Hungarian mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in Combinatorial geometry and Combinatorial set theory.
  • He may be best known for his work in the field that would eventually be called Additive Combinatorics.
  • Particularly notable was his "ingenious" application of the Szemerédi–Trotter theorem to improve the best known lower bound for the sum-product problem.
  • He also proved that any polynomial-time algorithm approximating the volume of convex bodies must have a multiplicative error, and the error grows exponentially on the dimension.
  • With Micha Sharir he set up a framework which eventually led Guth and Katz to the solution of the Erdos distinct distances problem.
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