Talk:Combinatorica

Hungarian School of Combinatorics?

The article says, "Members of the Hungarian School of Combinatorics strongly contributed to the journal as authors...". I've googled for a "Hungarian School of Combinatorics" and found no physical "school". I suspect that the original author might have said "Hungarian School of Combinatorics" as a metaphor for mathematicians who work on the type of combinatorial problems (or use methods of proof) that famous Hungarian mathematicians (e.g., Erdos, Renyi, etc...) are well-known for initiating. If there is an actual "Hungarian School of Combinatorics" please let me know, otherwise I'll reword the sentence to reflect my interpretation. Jwesley₇₈ 05:39, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, Jwesley, the expression "the Hungarian school of combinatorics" although frequenctly used, does not refer to a formally established society or even a defined and well known list. My understanding is that it is the common name of those Hungarian people who work/worked in combinatorics and either live/lived in Hungary (Gallai, Lovasz, Posa, Gyarfas, Sos, etc) or not (Beck, Bollobas, Frankl, etc). That is, Renyi, Erdos are in while Graham, Spencer, etc are out. It may be that your description is the more widely accepted.

In any case, it may deserve an article... Kope (talk) 13:55, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Some smilar examples: Italian school of algebraic geometry, Lwow-Warsaw School of Logic. Kope (talk) 21:48, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Pyber, the editor ?

The sentence starts as this: Members of the Hungarian School of Combinatorics strongly contributed to the journal as authors, as well as editors:... Kope (talk) 07:45, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Yeah. We should add back those I had removed. I was misreading the sentence. The "as well as" seems ambiguous to me. E.g., one might say, "She is an author, as well as an editor," meaning that she is both. What's meant in this context is not *and* but *or*, i.e., the list contains those who had contributed as an author *or* as an editor (or both). I'll add them back, and reword that sentence. Jwesley₇₈ 14:12, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, please rephrase it in a better way.Thanks. Kope (talk) 15:02, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Akademiai Kiado

Originally it was owned by the Bolyai Society and published jointly by the Akademiai Kiado(Publishing House of the Hunga Acad Sci) and North-Holland, see an old offprint here.Kope (talk) 17:21, 11 March 2010 (UTC)