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Gyula O. H. Katona

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Hungarian mathematician

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Gyula O. H. Katona is a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in combinatorial set theory, and especially for the Kruskal-Katona theorem and his beautiful and elegant proof of the Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem in which he discovered a new method, now called Katona's cycle method.

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2005Széchenyi Prize
1976Rényi Alfréd Prize

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Gyula O. H. Katona is a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in combinatorial set theory, and especially for the Kruskal-Katona theorem and his beautiful and elegant proof of the Erdős-Ko-Rado theorem in which he discovered a new method, now called Katona's cycle method. Since then, this method has become a powerful tool in proving many interesting results in extremal set theory. He is affiliated with the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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