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    Alfréd Rényi (20 March 1921 – 1 February 1970) was a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in probability theory, though he also made contributions...
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  • Shannon entropy, collision entropy, and min-entropy. The Rényi entropy is named after Alfréd Rényi, who looked for the most general way to quantify information...
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    These models are named after Hungarian mathematicians Paul Erdős and Alfréd Rényi, who introduced one of the models in 1959. Edgar Gilbert introduced the...
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  • The Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (Hungarian: Rényi Alfréd Matematikai Kutatóintézet) is the research institute in mathematics of the Hungarian...
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  • Alfréd Rényi Prize is awarded biennially by the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Science in honor of founder Alfréd Rényi...
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    University since 1986. He also holds a professor emeritus status at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Szemerédi...
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  • yes–no questions of another, but one of the answers given may be a lie. Alfréd Rényi (1961) introduced the game in a 1961 paper, based on Hungary's Bar Kokhba...
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    500–506. doi:10.1112/jlms/s2-10.4.500. University of St Andrews - Alfréd Rényi Rényi, A. A. (1948). "On the representation of an even number as the sum...
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    Erdős Prize from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Alfréd Rényi Prize of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics. He received a Lendület Grant from...
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  • Renyi or Rényi may refer to: Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970), Hungarian mathematician Katalin Rényi (1951–2023), Hungarian painter and graphic designer Tibor...
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    combinatorics. She was a student and close collaborator of both Paul Erdős and Alfréd Rényi. She also collaborated frequently with her husband Pál Turán, an analyst...
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  • their László Kalmár Prize, and in 1987, the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics gave her their Alfréd Rényi Prize. Curriculum vitae (PDF), August 2012...
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    an edge. The names of this graph honor Richard Rado, Paul Erdős, and Alfréd Rényi, mathematicians who studied it in the early 1960s; it appears even earlier...
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  • Imre Csiszár and László Lovász. In 1996, Marton won the Alfréd Rényi Prize from the Alfréd Rényi Institute. In 2013, she was the first (and so far only)...
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  • versions of the random vectors. This concept was first introduced by Alfréd Rényi in 1959. Simply speaking, it is a measure of the fractal dimension of...
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  • These divergences were introduced by Alfréd Rényi in the same paper where he introduced the well-known Rényi entropy. He proved that these divergences...
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  • The Erdős–Rényi Prize of the Network Science Society is named for Paul Erdős and Alfréd Rényi. This international prize is awarded annually in a special...
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    he gave an elementary proof of the mean ergodic theorem. Together with Alfréd Haar, Riesz founded the Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum journal. He had...
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    interesting results in extremal set theory. He is affiliated with the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Katona...
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    Medgyessy, sculptor (1881–1958) Zsigmond Móricz, writer (1879–1942) Alfréd Rényi, mathematician (1921–1970) Magda Szabó, writer (1917–2007) Sandor Szalay...
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    Richard Schelp (42 papers) C. C. Rousseau (35 papers) Vera Sós (35 papers) Alfréd Rényi (32 papers) Pál Turán (30 papers) Endre Szemerédi (29 papers) Ron Graham...
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  • proposed by the Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie when he learned that Alfred Nobel's plans for annual prizes would not include a prize in mathematics...
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  • of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics. Pálfy graduated from Eötvös University, Budapest in 1978 and started working at the Alfréd Rényi Institute...
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    back to the work of Paul Erdős and Alfréd Rényi. The graphs they considered, now known as the classical or Erdős–Rényi (ER) graphs, offer a simple and powerful...
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    Sporns Vincent Blondel Béla Bollobás Chris Danforth Peter Sheridan Dodds Pául Erdős Frank Harary László Lovász Alfréd Rényi Steven Strogatz Mason Porter...
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  • (1781–1840) Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov (1929–2013) Frank P. Ramsey (1903–1930) Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970) Oded Schramm (1961–2008) Romano Scozzafava (born 1935) Scott...
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    variables (i.e. with rate parameter 1). This result was first published by Alfréd Rényi. The Laplace transform of order statistics may be sampled from an Erlang...
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  • Aspects of Operator Algebras." From 1982-1989, he was a researcher at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Science of the Hungarian...
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  • the supervision of Alfréd Rényi. In 1975, he received the Alfréd Rényi Prize, a prize established for researchers of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics...
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  • the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (from 1962) and a director of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (1970-1983). He received both the Kossuth Prize...
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