Péter Komjáth

Péter Komjáth
Born	(1953-04-08) 8 April 1953 Budapest
Nationality	Hungarian
Alma mater	Eötvös Loránd University
Awards	Paul Erdős Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Eötvös Loránd University
Doctoral advisor	András Hajnal

Péter Komjáth (born April 8, 1953) is a Hungarian mathematician, working in set theory, especially combinatorial set theory. Komjáth is a professor at the Eötvös Loránd University. He is currently a visiting faculty member at Emory University in the department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Komjáth won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1971. His Ph.D. advisor at Eötvös was András Hajnal, and he has two joint papers with Paul Erdős. He received the Paul Erdős Prize in 1990. He is a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Selected publications

• Komjáth, Péter and Vilmos Totik: Problems and Theorems in Classical Set Theory, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006. ISBN 0-387-30293-X
• Komjáth, Péter (1988), "A simplified construction of nonlinear Davenport–Schinzel sequences", Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 49 (2): 262–267, doi:10.1016/0097-3165(88)90055-6, MR 0964387.
• Komjáth, Péter (1988), "Consistency results on infinite graphs", Israel Journal of Mathematics, 61 (3): 285–294, doi:10.1007/BF02772573, MR 0941243.
• Komjáth, Péter (2011), "The chromatic number of infinite graphs—A survey" (PDF), Discrete Mathematics, 311 (15): 1448–1450, doi:10.1016/j.disc.2010.11.004.

References

• Péter Komjáth at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

External links

• Hungarian Academy of Sciences Webpage
• Eötvös University Webpage
• Rutgers University Webpage