László Lovász
László Lovász speaking in 2007 at the EPFL
Born	March 9, 1948 (1948-03-09) (age 61) Budapest, Hungary
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	Pólya Prize (SIAM) (1979) Best Information Theory Paper Award (IEEE) (1981) Fulkerson Prize (1982) Wolf Prize (1999) Gödel Prize (2001) Bolyai prize (2007) Hungary's Széchenyi Grand Prize (2008).

László Lovász (born March 9, 1948 in Budapest, Hungary) (Hungarian pronunciation: [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.

In high school, Lovász won gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad (in years 1964, 1965, 1966) and so did his son in 2008^[1].

Lovász received his Ph.D. in 1970 at Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His advisor was Tibor Gallai.^[2]

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^[3].

Lovász was awarded the Bolyai prize in 2007 and Hungary's Széchenyi Grand Prize (2008). He received the Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (2008). He was elected foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2007), honorary member^[4] of the London Mathematical Society (2009).

He has an Erdős number of 1.

[edit] Books

He co-authored or edited the following books:

• Lovász L., Pelikán J., Vesztergombi K.: Kombinatorika, Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest, 1977
• Gács P., Lovász L.: Algoritmusok, Müszaki Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1978; Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest, 1987
• L. Lovász: Combinatorial Problems and Exercises, Akadémiai Kiadó - North Holland, Budapest, 1979 , revised: Elsevier, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1993, reprint: AMS Chelsea Publishing, 2007.
• L. Lovász, M.D. Plummer: Matching Theory, Akadémiai Kiadó - North Holland, Budapest, 1986
• L. Lovász: An Algorithmic Theory of Numbers, Graphs, and Convexity, CBMS-NSF Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics 50, SIAM, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1986
• M. Grötschel, L. Lovász, A. Schrijver: Geometric Algorithms and Combinatorial Optimization, Springer, 1988
• B. Korte, L. Lovász, R. Schrader: Greedoids, Springer, 1991
• R. Graham, , M. Grötschel, L. Lovász (eds.): Handbook of Combinatorics Elsevier Science B.V., 1995
• L. Lovász, J. Pelikán, K. Vesztergombi K.: Discrete Mathematics: Elementary and Beyond, Springer, New York, 2003

[edit] See also

• Topological combinatorics
• Lovász conjecture
• Erdős–Faber–Lovász conjecture
• Lovász local lemma
• LLL algorithm
• Perfect graph theorem
• Greedoid
• Bell number

[edit] Notes

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