Endre Szemerédi

Endre Szemerédi belongs to that rare class of minds who reshape entire fields with little more than pencil, paper, and ferocious insight. His 2012 Abel Prize, mathematics' highest honor, recognizes work in combinatorics and theoretical computer science that quietly underpins how we understand structure and randomness. What moves me is the contrast between the abstraction of his ideas and the towering recognition they earned, the Schock Prize, the Steele Prize, election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences well into his eighties. From Budapest to Rutgers, he spent a lifetime excavating truths invisible to the rest of us. That devotion commands deep respect.

Name (English)

Endre Szemerédi

Name (Japanese)

エンドレ・セメレディ

Reading

えんどれ・せめれでぃ

Born

August 21, 1940 (age 85)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dragon

Origin

Budapest, Hungary

Occupation

mathematician / computer scientist / university teacher

University

Eötvös Loránd University

Awards & achievements

• 2012 Abel Prize
• 2008 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics
• 2010 honorary doctor of the Charles University of Prague
• 2012 Széchenyi Prize
• 2008 Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research
• George Pólya Prize
• 2022 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Paul Erdős Prize

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.math-inst.hu/~szemered/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AC%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3

Tags

• mathematician
• computer scientist
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-02

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