Paul Turan
Paul Turan · Science & Medicine
Number theory and extremal graph theory; Turan's theorem
1910, Budapest, Hungary — 1976, Budapest, Hungary
Hungary
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Turán was a Hungarian mathematician who founded extremal graph theory with Turán's theorem and, with Paul Erdős, created the power-sum method in analytic number theory. He was Jewish and survived Nazi forced-labor camps during the war, later becoming a central figure in Hungarian mathematics.
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Number theory and extremal graph theory; Turan's theorem
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