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Yoshiharu Kohayakawa

b. 1963

University professor and researcher active in Brazil

Mathematician University teacher
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About Yoshiharu Kohayakawa

Born 1963. Yoshiharu Kohayakawa is a Brazilian mathematician and university teacher.

Yoshiharu Kohayakawa (Japanese: 小早川美晴; born 1963) is a Japanese-Brazilian mathematician working on discrete mathematics and probability theory. He is known for his work on Szemerédi's regularity lemma, which he extended to sparser graphs.

Biography Kohayakawa has a PhD advised by Béla Bollobás at the University of Cambridge with the dissertation External Combinatorics and the Evolution of Random Graphs.

According to Google Scholar, as of August 21, 2019, Kohayakawa's works have been cited over 3194 times, and his h-index is 33.

He is a titular member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

He was awarded the 2018 Fulkerson Prize.

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Important facts

Born
27 August 1963, Marília
Birth century
20th century
Occupation
Mathematician, university teacher
Nationality
Brazil
Education
University of São Paulo, University of Cambridge
Employers
Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of São Paulo, University of São Paulo
Awards
Fulkerson Prize
Also known as
Y Kohayakawa, Yoshi Kohayakawa, Y. Kohayakawa

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Who is Yoshiharu Kohayakawa?

university professor and researcher active in Brazil

When was Yoshiharu Kohayakawa born?

Yoshiharu Kohayakawa was born on 27 August 1963 in Marília.

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Yoshiharu Kohayakawa is a mathematician and university teacher.

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Yoshiharu Kohayakawa is Brazilian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Yoshiharu Kohayakawa

· Wikidata: Q20021278

· DBpedia: Yoshiharu Kohayakawa

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