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Also known as Laszlo Lovasz, L. Lovász

Hungarian mathematician

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László Lovász is a Hungarian person born on March 9, 1948. The individual is associated with the country of Hungary. According to available records, the person is identified as female.

Lovász has authored five works, including *An Algorithmic Theory of Numbers*, *Graphs and Convexity* (part of the CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics), *Algebraic methods in graph theory*, *Graphs and Geometry*, *Gráfok faktorizációs problémái*, and the *Handbook of Combinatorics*. The subject has an Erdős number of 1.

The individual is referenced by 477 other encyclopedia articles. An official website is maintained for László Lovász.

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Key facts

Born
( 1948-03-09 ) March 9, 1948 (age 78) , Budapest , Hungary
Citizenship
Hungarian, American
Education
Eötvös Loránd University ( CSc , PhD ), Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( PhD )
Known for
Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture , Kneser's conjecture , Lenstra–Lenstra–Lovász lattice basis reduction algorithm , Lovász local lemma
Awards
Abel Prize (2021) , Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (2010), Széchenyi Prize (2008), János Bolyai Creative Prize [ hu ] (2007), John von Neumann Theory Prize (2006), Gödel Prize (2001), Knuth Prize (1999), Wolf Prize (1999), Fulkerson Prize (1982, 2012), Pólya Prize (SIAM) (1979)
Fields
Mathematics, Computer Science
Institutions
Eötvös Loránd University , Microsoft Research Center , Yale University , University of Szeged
Thesis
Factors of Graphs (1971)
Doctoral advisor
Tibor Gallai
Doctoral students
András Frank , Tamás Szőnyi , Van Vu

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
László
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Budapest
Languages spoken
English language
Academic degree
Candidate of Sciences
Doctoral advisor
Tibor Gallai
Field of work
mathematics
Official website
www.cs.elte.hu/~lovasz
Image
László Lovász (2017) (cropped).jpg
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László Lovász
date of birth
1948-03-09
Erdős number
1
Commons gallery
László Lovász
name in native language
Lovász László
interested in
combinatorics
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview

László Lovász ( Hungarian: [ˈlovaːs ˈlaːsloː]; born March 9, 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly with Avi Wigderson. He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2007 to 2010 and the president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 2014 to 2020.

In graph theory, Lovász's notable contributions include the proofs of Kneser's conjecture and the Lovász local lemma, as well as the formulation of the Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture. He is also one of the eponymous authors of the LLL lattice reduction algorithm.

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