Gowers: a new proof of Szemerédi's theorem

What changed

Built a new quantitative proof using higher-order uniformity and additive-combinatorial structure.

Scientific scope

The record is Gowers's sole-author 2001 paper. It is a new proof and quantitative framework, not the original theorem, Furstenberg's ergodic proof or all later inverse-theorem developments.

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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Gowers's sole-author 2001 paper. It is a new proof and quantitative framework, not the original theorem, Furstenberg's ergodic proof or all later inverse-theorem developments.

Contributors

• W. Timothy Gowers · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Springer record for Gowers Szemerédi proof

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