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 was a student of Béla Bollobás at the University of Cambridge.
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.
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.
Kohayakawa has an Erdős number of 1.
He was awarded the 2018 Fulkerson Prize.
References
- ^ Brazilian Academy of Sciences – Yoshiharu Kohayakawa Archived May 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- László Lovász – Large Networks and Graph Limits, p. 395
- Bridget S. Webb – Surveys in Combinatorics 2005, p. 227
- Mathematics Genealogy Project – Yoshiharu Kohayakawa
- Google Scholar Profile – Yoshiharu Kohayakawa
- U.S.-Brazil Cooperative Research: Problems on Random Graphs (Structures) and Set Systems: NSG GRANT 0072064
- Celina Miraglia Herrera – My Erdős number
- He wrote "The size of the largest bipartite subgraphs", on Discrete Mathematics with Erdős and Gyárfás
External links
Categories:- 1963 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Brazilian mathematicians
- 21st-century Brazilian mathematicians
- Members of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
- Graph theorists
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Academic staff of the University of São Paulo
- Expatriate academics in Brazil
- Brazilian people of Japanese descent