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László Lovász

1948 - Today

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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 266,862 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). László Lovász is the 374th most popular mathematician (up from 617th in 2019), the 258th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 389th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, László Lovász ranks 374 out of 823. Before him are Jim Simons, David Cox, Yang Hui, Gemma Frisius, Raymond Smullyan, and Zhu Shijie. After him are Otto Hesse, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden, Igor Shafarevich, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Ivan Vinogradov, and Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, László Lovász ranks 179. Before him are Delio Onnis, Mate Parlov, Gottfried Helnwein, Shaul Mofaz, Barbara Hendricks, and Marcia Barrett. After him are Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Pam Ferris, Nick Drake, Raymond Leo Burke, Meg Foster, and Art Spiegelman.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, László Lovász ranks 258 out of 866. Before him are Ben Ferencz (1920), George Friedman (1949), John G. Kemeny (1926), András Hegedüs (1922), Imre Steindl (1839), and Ibolya Csák (1915). After him are Sándor Garbai (1879), Nicolaus Olahus (1493), Moritz Kaposi (1837), Béla Kiss (1877), Miklós Radnóti (1909), and Béla Király (1912).

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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 Peter Lax (1926), Paul Halmos (1916), Frigyes Riesz (1880), Dénes Kőnig (1884), Pál Turán (1910), and Rózsa Péter (1905).

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