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.

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.
• In a paper written with coauthors he solved the Hungarian lottery problem.
• 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.

External links

• Füredi's UIUC home page