Péter Frankl
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- For the pianist see Peter FranklPeter FranklPeter Frankl is a Hungarian-born British pianist. He mainly performs music from the Classical period , the Romantic period and the early Modern period...
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Hungary
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) is a Hungarian mathematician
Mathematician
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and street performer
Busking
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. Frankl studied Mathematics in University Paris Diderot and has lived in Japan
Japan
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since 1988, where he sometimes appears on NHK
NHK
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. Though not as popular as he once was, he still performs juggling
Juggling
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in public spaces around Tokyo
Tokyo
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. Frankl won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad
International Mathematical Olympiad
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in 1971. His Ph.D. advisor was Gyula O.H. Katona, and he has six joint papers with Paul Erdős
Paul Erdos
Paul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician. Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory...
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His research is in combinatorics
Combinatorics
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, especially in extremal combinatorics
Extremal combinatorics
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Since 1998, he is an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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