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László Lovász

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of László Lovász has received more than 283,296 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). László Lovász is the 413th most popular mathematician (down from 374th in 2019), the 291st most popular biography from Hungary (down from 258th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, László Lovász ranks 413 out of 1,004. Before him are Guido Fubini, Al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ibn Maṭar, Mary Cartwright, Ibn al-Banna' al-Marrakushi, Carl Ludwig Siegel, and Thomas Fincke. After him are Abraham Robinson, Henryk Zygalski, Georgy Voronoy, Albert W. Tucker, Al-Sijzi, and Helmut Hasse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, László Lovász ranks 208. Before him are Javier Irureta, Vladimír Remek, Pam Ferris, Abdelmalek Sellal, Marisol, and Sho Kosugi. After him are Terry Goodkind, Viktor Afanasyev, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Pavel Grachev, Patty Pravo, and Claude Le Roy.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, László Lovász ranks 291 out of 1,077. Before him are György Orth (1901), Rudolf Bauer (1879), Emma Orczy (1865), László Mednyánszky (1852), Géza Gárdonyi (1863), and Dezső Novák (1939). After him are Franz Alexander (1891), Károly Grósz (1930), Moritz Kaposi (1837), Máté Zalka (1896), Béla Kiss (1877), and Lippo Hertzka (1904).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, László Lovász ranks 7. Before him are John von Neumann (1903), Paul Erdős (1913), George Pólya (1887), Marcel Grossmann (1878), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), and John G. Kemeny (1926). After him are Frigyes Riesz (1880), Raoul Bott (1923), Peter Lax (1926), Pál Turán (1910), Klára Dán von Neumann (1911), and Dénes Kőnig (1884).

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