Zsolt Baranyai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Hungarian mathematician
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Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
About Zsolt Baranyai
- Zsolt Baranyai (June 23, 1948 in Budapest – April 6, 1978) was a Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics.
- He graduated from the Fazekas Highschool where he was a classmate of László Lovász, Miklós Laczkovich, and Lajos Pósa.
- Following this he learned mathematics at the Eötvös Loránd University between 1967 and 1972.
- Afterwards he was a lecturer at the Analysis Department of the same university.
- He got his Ph.D.
- in 1975 and obtained the Candidate degree of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1978, posthumously.
- He did research in combinatorics; Baranyai's theorem on the decompositions of complete hypergraphs solved a long-standing open problem.
- As well as being a mathematician, Baranyai was a professional musician, who played the recorder.
- He died in a car accident after a concert, while touring Hungary with the Bakfark Consort.
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