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zarankiewicz problem

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
zarankiewicz prob-lem
IPA
52
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
2
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An unsolved problem in mathematics, asking for the largest possible number of edges in a bipartite graph that has a given number of vertices and has no complete bipartite subgraphs of a given size.

Etymology

Named after the Polish mathematician Kazimierz Zarankiewicz, who proposed several special cases of the problem in 1951.

Inflected Forms

the Zarankiewicz problem (canonical)

Phrases

Zarankiewicz function

Frequently Paired Words

Zarankiewicz function

Questions

What does zarankiewicz problem mean?
An unsolved problem in mathematics, asking for the largest possible number of edges in a bipartite graph that has a given number of vertices and has no complete bipartite subgraphs of a given size.
Where does zarankiewicz problem come from?
Named after the Polish mathematician Kazimierz Zarankiewicz, who proposed several special cases of the problem in 1951.

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