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Imre Z. Ruzsa

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Reference excerpt

Imre Z. Ruzsa (born 23 July 1953) is a Hungarian mathematician specializing in number theory.

Life He graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University in 1976. Since then he has been at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1988. He was elected corresponding member (1998) and member (2004) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was invited speaker at the European Congress of Mathematics at Stockholm, 2004, and in the Combinatorics section of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, 2006. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Work With Endre Szemerédi he proved subquadratic upper and lower bounds for the Ruzsa–Szemerédi problem on the number of triples of points in which the union of any three triples contains at least seven points. He proved that an essential component has at least (log x)1+ε elements up to x, for some ε > 0. On the other hand, for every ε > 0 there is an essential component that has at most (log x)1+ε elements up to x, for every x. He gave a new proof to Freiman's theorem. Ruzsa also showed the existence of a Sidon sequence which has at least x0.41 elements up to x. In a result complementing the Erdős–Fuchs theorem he showed that there exists a sequence a0, a1, ... of natural numbers such that for every n the number of solutions of the inequality ai + aj ≤ n is cn + O(n1/4log n) for some c > 0.

Selected publications Ruzsa, I. Z.; Szemerédi, E. (1978). "Triple systems with no six points carrying three triangles". Colloq. Math. Soc. János Bolyai. 18. North-Holland, Amsterdam-New York: 939–945. Ruzsa, I. Z. (1987). "Essential components". Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. 54: 38–56. doi:10.1112/plms/s3-54.1.38. Ruzsa, I. Z. (1994). "Generalized arithmetical progressions and sumsets". Acta Mathematica Hungarica. 65 (4): 379–388. doi:10.1007/BF01876039. S2CID 121469006. Ruzsa, Imre Z. (1997). "The Brunn-Minkowski inequality and nonconvex sets". Geometriae Dedicata. 67 (3): 337–348. doi:10.1023/A:1004958110076. MR 1475877. S2CID 117749981.

See also Ruzsa triangle inequality Plünnecke–Ruzsa inequality

References

External links Some of Ruzsa's papers at the Rényi Institute Imre Z. Ruzsa's results at International Mathematical Olympiad

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Imre Z. Ruzsa

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Imre Z. Ruzsa ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Imre Z. Ruzsa

In research: Imre Z. Ruzsa appears in mathematics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Imre Z. Ruzsa in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Imre Z. Ruzsa is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1953 births, 20th-century Hungarian mathematicians, 21st-century Hungarian mathematicians, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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Imre Z. Ruzsa (born 23 July 1953) is a Hungarian mathematician specializing in number theory.

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