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Vera T. Sós
Vera T. Sós is an award winning Hungarian mathematician. Sós was born on September 11, 1930 in Budapest, Hungary. Her fields of study specialize in Number theory and Combinatorics She has also studied in  Discrete Mathematics,  Algorithms and Theory, and Control and Optimization. She is married to another mathematician, Paul Turan. Sós currently teaches at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics. The Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics is the research institute in mathematics in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Life and Career
Vera Sós is the daughter of a school teacher. Sós attended the Abonyi Street Jewish highschool in Budapest and graduated in 1948. She was introduced to  Alfréd Rényi and  Paul Erdős wby her teacher Gallai. Sós considered Gallai to be the person who discovered her gift for mathematics. Sós was also one of three girls out of all the girls in Gallai's class that became a mathematician. She later collaborated with both Rényi and Erdős. Together she and Erdős have thirty joint papers. Sòs attended Eötvös University. There, she studied as a mathematics and physics major and later taught in 1950. She graduated from Eötvös University in 1952. At the age of twenty, Sós attended a Mathematical Congress in Budapest, Hungary and attended a summer internship. Sós met her husband, Paul Turan in college, who she also collaborated with. They married in 1952. The two had two children in 1953 and 1960, Gyorgy and Thomas Turan. Turan died in September of 1976. In 1965, Sós began he weekly Hajnal-Sós seminar at the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy for Science. The seminar is considered to be a "forum for new results in combinatorics." This weekly seminar continues to this day. Throughout her years working in the mathematics field, Sós has been honored with many awards as as a result of the work she has done. One of the many awards includes the Széchenyi Prize which she recieved in 1997. The Széchenyi Prize is an award given to those who have greatly contributed to academic life of Hungary. One of the many theorems Vera T. Sós worked on was called the Kővári–Sós–Turán theorem. More information can be found here. In this theorem, Sós collaborated with her husband Paul Turan and Tamas Kővári. Vera T. Sós also worked on, what is called the Friendship Theorem/Graph. This theorem was proved with Paul Erdõs and Alfréd Rényi in 1966.

Lecture By Vera T Sós
Link To Lecture
 * This lecture given by Vera T. Sós is about Order and Disorder. This lecture was given on November 6, 2010. 
 * In this lecture Sós is speaking in her native language, Hungarian. (Found on YouTube)

Awards Given

 * Széchenyi Prize: 1997
 * Academic Award: 1983
 * Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit: 2002
 * Tibor-edged medallion: 1974

Some Published Work by Vera T. Sós

 * Erdős, Paul, Alfréd Rényi, and Vera T. Sós. Combinatorial Theory and Its Applications;. Budapest: János Bolyai Mathematical Society, 1970. Print.
 * Erdős, Paul, A. Hajnal, Richard Rado, and Vera T. Sós. Infinite and Finite Sets: To Paul Erdős on His 60th Birthday. Amsterdam: North-Holland Pub., 1975. Print.
 * Lovász, László, and Vera T. Sós. Algebraic Methods in Graph Theory. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1981. Print.
 * Halász, Gábor, and Vera T. Sós. Irregularities of Partitions. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1989. Print.
 * Kalman, Gyory, Attila Petho, and Vera T. Sos. Number Theory - Diophantine, Computational and Algebraic Aspects: Proceedings of the International Conference, Held in Eger, Hungary, July 29 - August 2, 1996. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1998. Print.
 * Halász, Gábor, Laszlo Lovasz, and Miklos Simonovits, Vera T. Sós. Paul Erdős and His Mathematics. Berlin: Springer, 2002. Print.