Japanese-Brazilian mathematician
Yoshiharu Kohayakawa, in 2017.
Yoshiharu Kohayakawa (Japanese: 小早川美晴; born 1963) is a Japanese-Brazilian mathematician working on discrete mathematics and probability theory .[ 1] He is known for his work on Szemerédi's regularity lemma , which he extended to sparser graphs .[ 2] [ 3]
Biography
Kohayakawa was a student of Béla Bollobás at the University of Cambridge .[ 4]
According to Google Scholar , as of August 21, 2019, Kohayakawa's works have been cited over 3194 times, and his h-index is 33.[ 5]
He is a titular member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences .[ 1]
In 2000, five American researchers received a USA NSF Research Grant in the value of $20,000 to go to Brazil to work in collaboration with him on mathematical problems.[ 6]
Kohayakawa has an Erdős number of 1.[ 7] [ 8]
He was awarded the 2018 Fulkerson Prize .
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External links
International National Academics