Alfréd Rényi

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Hungarian mathematician human mathematician

Alfréd Rényi was a Hungarian mathematician renowned for his influential work in probability theory, information theory, and number theory.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Hungarian mathematician → human → mathematician →
causeOfDeath	heart attack →
child	Katalin Rényi (daughter) →
countryOfCitizenship	Hungary →
dateOfBirth	1921-03-20 →
dateOfDeath	1970-02-01 →
doctoralAdvisor	Frigyes Riesz → Pál Turán →
educatedAt	Eötvös Loránd University → University of Budapest → University of Szeged →
employer	Eötvös Loránd University → Hungarian Academy of Sciences →
familyName	Rényi →
fieldOfWork	combinatorics → graph theory → information theory → number theory → probability theory → statistics →
givenName	Alfréd →
hasAphorism	A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems →
influenced	information theory → probability theory → random graph theory →
influencedBy	Frigyes Riesz → Pál Turán →
knownFor	Erdős–Rényi model → Erdős–Rényi random graph → Rényi divergence → Rényi entropy → work in combinatorics → work in information theory → work in number theory → work in probability theory →
languageOfWorkOrName	English → German → Hungarian →
memberOf	Hungarian Academy of Sciences →
name	Alfréd Rényi →
notableStudent	Paul Erdős →
notableWork	Dialogues on Mathematics → Foundations of Probability → Probability Theory →
placeOfBirth	Budapest →
placeOfDeath	Budapest →
positionHeld	director of the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences → professor at Eötvös Loránd University →
spouse	Katalin Rényi →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Rényi divergence → Rényi entropy →	introducedBy
Rényi divergence → Rényi entropy →	namedAfter
Alfréd Rényi ("Rényi") →	familyName
Alfréd Rényi →	name