Category Archives: Happy birthday

Happy Birthday Ervin, János, Péter, and Zoli!

Posted on July 6, 2014 by Gil Kalai

The four princes in summit 200, ten years ago. (Left to right) Ervin Győri, Zoltán Füredi, Péter Frankl and János Pach   In 2014, Péter Frankl, Zoltán Füredi, Ervin Győri and János Pach are turning 60 and summit 240 is a conference … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Richard Stanley!

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Gil Kalai

This week we are celebrating in Cambridge MA , and elsewhere in the world, Richard Stanley’s birthday.  For the last forty years, Richard has been one of the very few leading mathematicians in the area of combinatorics, and he found deep, profound, and … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Ron Aharoni!

Posted on November 25, 2012 by Gil Kalai

Ron Aharoni, one of Israel’s and the world’s leading combinatorialists celebrated his birthday last month. This is a wonderful opportunity to tell you about a few of the things that Ron did mainly around matching theory. Menger’s theorem for infinite … Continue reading →

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