Gyula O. H. Katona

This article is about the mathematician. For the 1900 Olympian with the same name, see Gyula Katona (gymnast).

Gyula O. H. Katona (March 16, 1941 – ) is a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in combinatorial set theory, and especially for the Kruskal-Katona theorem and his elegant proof of the Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Hungarian Academy of Sciences, with a dissertation entitled Paths and Cycles in Graphs and Hypergraphs under the advisement of László Lovász and András Recski, and as of 2006 remains affiliated with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Katona was secretary-general of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society from 1990 to 1996. In 1966 and 1968 he won the Grünwald Prize, awarded by the Bolyai Society to outstanding young mathematicians, he was awarded the Rényi Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1975, and the same academy awarded him the Prize of the Academy in 1989.

External links

• Katona's web site
• Katona at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Katona on IMDB, appearing as himself in N is a Number