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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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- László
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- Hungarian Academy of Sciences
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Paul Erdős Prize
- 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
- member of
- London Mathematical Society
- Erdős number
- 1
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- László Lovász
- name in native language
- Lovász László
- interested in
- combinatorics
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P8168
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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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