László Babai (called Laci by friends and colleagues), born July 20, 1950 in Budapest, is a Hungarian professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on computational complexity theory, algorithms, combinatorics, and finite groups, with an emphasis on the interactions between these fields. He is the author of over 150 academic papers.
His notable accomplishments include the introduction of interacti...
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László Babai (called Laci by friends and colleagues), born July 20, 1950 in Budapest, is a Hungarian professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on computational complexity theory, algorithms, combinatorics, and finite groups, with an emphasis on the interactions between these fields. He is the author of over 150 academic papers.
His notable accomplishments include the introduction of interactive proof systems (see ), the introduction of the term Las Vegas algorithm, and the introduction of group theoretic methods in graph isomorphism testing (see for the latter two).
He received his doctorate from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1975.
He is editor-in-chief of the refereed online journal Theory of Computing.
Babai was also involved in the creation of the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program and first coined the name.
His Erdős number is one.
In the Stargate Atlantis episode "First Contact," Zelenka says he is using Babai...
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