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Gil Kalai

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Gil Kalai · Science & Medicine

What

Combinatorics and the theory of convex polytopes

When

1955, Israel

Where

Israel · United States

Biography

Gil Kalai is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Combinatorics and the theory of convex polytopes

How & why

Kalai is an Israeli mathematician known for deep results in combinatorics and the theory of convex polytopes, including work on the Hirsch conjecture and connections between combinatorics, computation and quantum computing. A professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he received the Fulkerson and Rothschild Prizes. He is a Jewish Israeli.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Combinatorics and the theory of convex polytopes

1955

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics