Péter Frankl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Péter Frankl

Hungarian mathematician and street performer in Japan (b.1953)

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1953

Place of Birth: Kaposvár, Somogy County, Hungary

Profession: mathematician, street artist, circus performer

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Péter Frankl (born 26 March 1953 in Kaposvár, Somogy County, Hungary) is a mathematician, street performer, columnist and educator, active in Japan.
Frankl studied Mathematics at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and submitted his PhD thesis while still an undergraduate.
He holds PhD degree from University Paris Diderot as well.
He has lived in Japan since 1988, where he is a well-known personality and often appears in the media.
He keeps travelling around Japan performing (juggling and giving public lectures on various topics).
Frankl won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1971.
He has seven joint papers with Paul Erdos, and eleven joint papers with Ronald Graham.
His research is in combinatorics, especially in extremal combinatorics.
He is the author of the union-closed sets conjecture.