Pál Turán

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Paul (Pál) Turán (August 28, 1910–September 26, 1976) was a Hungarian mathematician who made contributions in number theory, group theory and approximation theory. He proved one of the first major results in extremal graph theory. He wrote several papers with Paul Erdős.

Turán was sent to labour camps at various times from 1940 to 1944. He is said to have been recognized and perhaps protected by a fascist guard, who, as a mathematics student, had admired Turán's work. ^[1]

He was married twice and had three sons.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ P. Turán, "A note of welcome", Journal of Graph Theory 1 (1977), pp. 7-9.

[edit] See also

• Turán's theorem
• Turán graph
• Turán power sum method
• Turán number
• Turán's inequalities

[edit] External links

• Pál Turán at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Paul Turán”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive 
• Turan's papers in Number Theory