Péter Frankl
| Péter Frankl | |
|---|---|
 Peter Frankl at a mathematics conference in Tehran in May 2009 | |
| Born |
26 March 1953 Hungary |
| Residence | Japan |
| Fields | combinatorics |
| Doctoral advisor | Gyula O.H. Katona.[1] |
| Influenced | Kentaro Nagao (Takebe Katahiro Prize)[2] |
| Notable awards | Silver and gold medal at IMO, The Minister of Foreign Affairs Prize of the Japan Prize,silver award from US international film festival[3] |
Péter Frankl (born 26 March 1953 in Kaposvár, Somogy County, Hungary) is a mathematician, street performer, columnist and educator, active in Japan.[4] Frankl studied Mathematics at Eötvös 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 personnality 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 Erdős,[5] and eleven joint papers with Ronald Graham.[6] His research is in combinatorics, especially in extremal combinatorics. He is the author of the union-closed sets conjecture.[7]
Personality
Both of his parents were survivors of concentration camps and taught him "The only things you own are in your heart and brain". So he became a mathematician. Frankl often lectures about racial discrimination.[8]
Adolescence and abilities
He could multiply two digit numbers when he was four years old.[9] Frankl speaks 12 languages (Hungarian, English, Russian, Swedish, French, Spanish, Polish, German, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Korean) and lectured mathematics in many countries in these languages. He has travelled to more than 100 countries.[10][11]
Activities
Frankl learnt juggling from Ronald Graham. He and Rödl solved a $1000 problem of Paul Erdös. Zsolt Baranyai helped Frankl to get a scholarship in France, where he became a CNRS research fellow.
For 1984 to 1990, Frankl and Akiyama worked hard organizing a Japanese mathematical Olympic team, and as a consequence the Japanese team is now a regular participant of the International Mathematical Olympiad.[12][13]
Since 1998, he is an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.[14]
He authored more than thirty books in Japanese, and with Babai they wrote the manuscript of a book on "Linear Algebra Methods in Combinatorics".
Frankl conjecture
For any finite union-closed family of finite sets, other than the family consisting only of the empty set, there exists an element that belongs to at least half of the sets in the family.
See also
References
- ↑ "Theoretical Computer Science Genealogy". ACM SIGACT. Archived from the original on 29 April 2005. Retrieved 2007-11-27.
- ↑ https://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/research/prize.html Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University
- ↑ http://www.filmfestawards.com US international film & video festival
- ↑ http://chukou.passnavi.com/parent/special/98-special4?start=1 interview about Peter Frankl
- ↑ "Erdos0". Erdos Number Project. Archived from the original on 2 November 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-27.
- ↑ "LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF PETER FRANKL". Retrieved 2015-10-15.
- ↑ Frankl's union-closed sets conjecture, the Open Problem Garden.
- ↑ http://blog.livedoor.jp/bbgmgt/archives/2935820.html 在日ユダヤ人論序説－ピーター・フランクルを通して考える「日本」－
- ↑ 頭のよくなる本 [A book to be smart]. wave publisher. ISBN 4-900528-37-4.
- ↑ ピーター流外国語習得術 [Peter-style foreign language acquisition techniques]. Iwanami Junior Shinsho.
- ↑ http://www.peterfrankl.com/profile/index.html
- ↑ http://www.jikkyo.co.jp/contents/download/1857219556 nakajima sachiko's interview
- ↑ https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P3-3342144041/student-math-prize-named-after-young-genius Student Math Prize Named after Young 'Genius'
- ↑ MTA Members: Péter Frankl (in Hungarian), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, retrieved 2015-10-14.