László Lovász
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| László Lovász | |
 László Lovász speaking in 2007 at the EPFL
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| Born | March 9, 1948 Budapest, Hungary |
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| Residence | Budapest, Hungary |
| Nationality | Hungarian, American |
| Fields | Mathematician |
| Institutions | Eötvös Loránd University |
| Alma mater | Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
| Known for | president of the International Mathematical Union |
| Notable awards | Bolyai prize (2007) Hungary's Széchenyi Grand Prize (2008). |
László Lovász (born March 9, 1948 in Budapest, Hungary) (pronounced [ˈlaːsloː ˈlovaːs]) is a mathematician, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999.
Lovász received his Ph.D. in 1970 at Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His advisor was Tibor Gallai.[1]
Lovász was a professor at Yale University during the 1990s and was a collaborative member of the Microsoft Research Center until 2006. Now he has returned to Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, where he is the director of the Mathematical Institute.
He has served as president of the International Mathematical Union since January 1, 2007[2].
Lovász was awarded the Bolyai prize in 2007 and Hungary's Széchenyi Grand Prize (2008).
He has an Erdős number of 1.
[edit] See also
- Topological combinatorics
- Lovász conjecture
- Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture
- Lovász local lemma
- Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovász lattice reduction algorithm
- Perfect graph theorem
- Greedoid
- Bell number
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