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Peter Frankl (born 1953) is a Hungarian mathematician, street performer, columnist and educator active in Japan, where he has lived since 1988. He works in extremal combinatorics, wrote seven joint papers with Paul Erdos and eleven with Ronald Graham, and in 1979 proposed the union-closed sets conjecture that now carries his name. He won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1971.

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Birth Date
1953-03-26 1
Birthplace
Kaposvar, Hungary 1
Nationality / Culture
Hungarian 1
Defining Contribution
Research in extremal combinatorics; proposed the union-closed sets conjecture (also called Frankl's conjecture) in 1979. 1
Award
Gold medal, International Mathematical Olympiad (1971) 1
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1. Peter Frankl (Wikipedia)
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Born (1953-03-26) 26 March 1953 Hungary
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mathematician, street performer, columnist and educator, active in Japan
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Frankl won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 1971.
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Union-Closed Sets Conjecture (Wikipedia)
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Peter Frankl stated the conjecture in terms of intersection-closed set families in 1979
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