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.
Lovász received his Ph.D. in 1970 at Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His advisor...
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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.
Lovász received his Ph.D. in 1970 at Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His advisor was Tibor Gallai.
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.
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). In 2007, he was elected...
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