Zoltán Füredi

Zoltán Füredi (Budapest, Hungary, 21 May 1954) is a Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics, mainly in discrete geometry and extremal combinatorics. He was a student of Gyula O. H. Katona. He is a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2004). He is a research professor of the Rényi Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Füredi received his Candidate of Sciences degree in mathematics in 1981 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.^[1]

Some results

• In infinitely many cases he determined the maximum number of edges in a graph with no C₄.
• With Paul Erdős he proved that for some c>1, there are c^d points in d-dimensional space such that all triangles formed from those points are acute.
• With Imre Bárány he proved that no polynomial time algorithm determines the volume of convex bodies in dimension d within a multiplicative error d^d.
• He proved that there are at most $O(n\log n)$ unit distances in a convex n-gon.^[2]
• In a paper written with coauthors he solved the Hungarian lottery problem.^[3]
• With I. Palásti he found the best known lower bounds on the orchard-planting problem of finding sets of points with many 3-point lines.^[4]

References

1. Zoltán Füredi at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. Z. Füredi (1990). "The maximum number of unit distances in a convex n-gon". Journal of Combinatorial Theory 55 (2): 316–320. doi:10.1016/0097-3165(90)90074-7.
3. Z. Füredi, G. J. Székely, and Z. Zubor (1996). "On the lottery problem". Journal of Combinatorial Designs (Wiley) 4 (1): 5–10. doi:10.1002/(sici)1520-6610(1996)4:1<5::aid-jcd2>3.3.co;2-w. Reprint
4. Füredi, Z.; Palásti, I. (1984), "Arrangements of lines with a large number of triangles", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 92 (4): 561–566, doi:10.2307/2045427.

External links

• Füredi's UIUC home page