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Combinatorics

This group collects the Mathematics subcategory's members whose defining work concerns combinatorics: counting, arrangement and graph theory, the mathematics of discrete structures rather than continuous ones. It is the subcategory's smallest flat group at the live count, kept apart from Algebra And Number Theory and Analysis, whose members work on algebraic structures or continuous mathematics rather than discrete counting and arrangement problems.

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Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and as an end to obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures.
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Endre Szemerédi (Wikipedia)
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working in the field of combinatorics and theoretical computer science
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László Lovász (Wikipedia)
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best known for his work in combinatorics
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Noga Alon (Wikipedia)
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noted for his contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science
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