József Beck

József Beck ( born February 14, 1952 in Budapest) is a Hungarian- American mathematician who in particular deals with combinatorics and calculus.

Beck studied in Budapest and was from 1990 professor at Rutgers University. He is there, Harold H. Martin Professor of Mathematics. 1984/1985 he was at Imperial College.

Beck proved a conjecture of Paul Erdős in combinatorial geometry: In case of n points in the plane not more than (nk) ( for 0 < k < n-2) lie on a straight line, this place a number of straight fixed greater than for some constant c .. he also achieved in part result in a presumption of Gabriel Dirac and Theodore Motzkin: from n non-collinear points in the plane, there is a point through which (via the connecting line to the other points ) more than straight set are ( for some constant g).

He also deals with irregularities of point distributions, number theory and combinatorial game theory (for example, Tic -Tac -Toe ).

In 1985 he was awarded the Fulkerson Prize for the work " Roth 's estimate of the discrepancy of integer sequences is nearly sharp" in which he introduced discrepancies of hypergraphs.

Beck was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) in 1986 in Berkeley ( Uniformity and Irregularity ). He is a foreign member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Writings

• William Chen: Irregularities of distribution, Cambridge University Press 1987
• Combinatorial Games: Tic -Tac-Toe Theory, Cambridge University Press 2008
• Inevitable randomness in discrete mathematics, American Mathematical Society in 2009, Review, Rojas, Bulletin AMS, 2013
• Games, Randomness and Algorithms, in Ronald Graham, Jaroslav Nesetril (Editor): The mathematics of Paul Erdos, Vol.1, Springer 1997, p.280 -311