Comment by jboggan
9 hours ago
I was given this problem by Ervin Györi at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics. I wasn't really at any school, it's a long and very bizarre story I should tell at length about being an illegal immigrant, getting kicked out of a graduate math program as a 20-year-old, and winning a grey-market apartment with my knowledge of Petöfi's poetry.
If I didn't live in Budapest already I'd be questioning the authenticity of this retelling. However I've seen so many crazy things there that I find it very easy to believe.
I started typing out some specifics and realized it was honestly too weird and lascivious to describe in an HN comment section, shoot me an email and I'll send you the blog post about it. 2002 was wild in Budapest.