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Region: Budapest (Hongrie)

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Hungarian mathematician whose parents were both Jewish; his mother was the daughter of philosopher Bernhard Alexander. Prevented from entering university in 1939 by antisemitic laws, interned in a labor camp from which he escaped, he completed his doctorate in 1947. Author of more than 30 joint papers with Paul Erdős (model of the Erdős–Rényi random graph); he founded the Institute of Mathematics in Budapest that bears his name today (« Rényi entropy »).

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