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Béla Bollobás

1943 - Today

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Béla Bollobás FRS (born 3 August 1943) is a Hungarian-born British mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics, graph theory, and percolation. He was strongly influenced by Paul Erdős from the age of 14. He is currently a professor and chair of excellence at the University of Memphis. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Béla Bollobás is the 932nd most popular mathematician (up from 962nd in 2024), the 796th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 837th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Béla Bollobás ranks 932 out of 1,004. Before him are Ivar Otto Bendixson, Fan Chung, Evelyn Boyd Granville, Richard Garfield, Henry Thomas Colebrooke, and Barry Mazur. After him are Carl Pomerance, Antoni Zygmund, Yakov Eliashberg, Poul Heegaard, Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, and Krystyna Kuperberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Béla Bollobás ranks 648. Before him are Andrzej Badeński, Tommy Gemmell, John McEnery, Dick Van Arsdale, Yoshisada Shimizu, and Ben Jipcho. After him are Jackson C. Frank, Zdravko Hebel, Richard Moll, Reita Faria, Richard Eyre, and Pete Quaife.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Béla Bollobás ranks 796 out of 1,077. Before him are Krisztina Egerszegi (1974), Zoltán Huszárik (1931), Jenő Kamuti (1937), Béla Várady (1953), Pál Dárdai (1976), and András Törőcsik (1955). After him are Mihály Mayer (1933), Péter Besenyei (1956), Ádám Szalai (1987), Dezső Lemhényi (1917), Ágnes Nemes Nagy (1922), and Katalin Vad (1980).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, Béla Bollobás ranks 24. Before him are Alfréd Rényi (1921), Vera T. Sós (1930), George Szekeres (1911), Marcel Riesz (1886), Raoul Bott (1923), and Cornelius Lanczos (1893).

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