Zoltán Szabó (mathematician)

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Zoltán Szabó
Born	1965 (age 48–49) Budapest, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian
Fields	Mathematics
Alma mater	Rutgers University Eötvös Loránd University
Doctoral advisor	Ted Edgar Petrie John Morgan
Doctoral students	Joshua Greene
Notable awards	Veblen Prize (2007)

Zoltán Szabó (November 24, 1965) is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University. He created, along with Peter Ozsváth, Heegaard Floer homology, a homology theory for 3-manifolds. For this contribution to the field of topology, Ozsváth and Szabó were awarded the 2007 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry.^[1]

He got his B.A. from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary in 1990, and he received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1994. In 2010, he was elected honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Selected publications

———; Ozsváth, Peter (2004), "Holomorphic disks and topological invariants for closed three-manifolds", Annals of Mathematics 159 (3): 1027–1158 .
———; Ozsváth, Peter (2004), "Holomorphic disks and three-manifold invariants: properties and applications", Annals of Mathematics 159 (3): 1159–1245 .

References

↑ Notices of the AMS (Volume 54, Number 4) - 2007 Veblen Prize.

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Name	Szabo, Zoltan
Alternative names
Short description	Hungarian mathematician
Date of birth	November 24, 1965
Place of birth	Budapest
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