About János Körner
Born 1946. János Körner is a Hungarian mathematician and university teacher.
János Körner is a Hungarian mathematician who works on information theory and combinatorics.
Körner studied Mathematics at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest with a degree in 1970 Besides information theory, he also works on extremal graph theory.
In 2014 he received the Claude E. Shannon Award. He served as Associated editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory on multiple occasions. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Books With Imre Csiszár: Information Theory: Coding Theorems for Discrete Memoryless Systems, Academic Press 1981, 2nd edition Cambridge University Press 2011.
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János Körner was born on 30 November 1946 in Budapest.
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