Imre Csiszár

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Imre Csiszár (born February 7, 1938 in Miskolc ) is a Hungarian mathematician .

Csiszar studied at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest and graduated in 1961 with a diploma. In 1967 he received his doctorate there under Alfréd Rényi and obtained his habilitation in 1977 (doctorate according to the Russian system). From 1961 he was at the Mathematics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (later the Alfred Renyi Institute), where from 1968 he headed the Information Theory department and later the Stochastics department. He is also a professor at Lorand Eötvös University and taught at the Technical University of Budapest. He was visiting professor at Bielefeld University , the University of Maryland (College Park), the University of Tokyo, Stanford University and the University of Virginia (Charlottesville) , among others .

Csiszár deals with information theory and probability theory , whereby he was particularly influenced by Alfréd Rényi.

In 1996 he won the Claude E. Shannon Award . He received the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in 1989 and the IEEE Information Theory Society's Paper Award in 1988. Csiszár is a Fellow of the IEEE and became a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1990 and a full member in 1995. He was president of the Hungarian Mathematical Society ( Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat ) from 1996 to 2006 . In 2013 he received the Dobruschin Prize and in 2015 he was awarded the Richard W. Hamming Medal .

He is married and has four kids.

Fonts

  • with János Körner Information theory: Coding theorems for discrete memoryless systems , Academic Press / Akademiai Kiao 1981
  • with P. Elias (editor) Topics in information theory , North Holland 1977
  • with Paul C. Shields Information theory and statistics: a tutorial , Hanover (Massachusetts), Now Publishers 2005
  • with G. Michaletzky (editor) Stochastic differential and difference equations , Birkhäuser 1997
  • with Gyula OH Katona , Gábor Tardos (editor) Entropy, search, complexity , Springer Verlag 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imre Csiszár in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Csiszár, Imre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Miskolc