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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. He is also one of the eponymous authors of the LLL lattice reduction algorithm. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. László Lovász is the 375th most popular mathematician (up from 413th in 2019), the 254th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 291st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Hungarian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, László Lovász ranks 375 out of 1,004. Before him are Zhu Shijie, Daina Taimiņa, Sergei Sobolev, Antoine Gombaud, Vladimir Drinfeld, and Michael Maestlin. After him are Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, John Milnor, Raymond Smullyan, Guillaume Postel, Simon Antoine Jean L'Huilier, and Thomas Heath.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, László Lovász ranks 189. Before him are Kate Jackson, Ruud Geels, Shaul Mofaz, Friedrich Koncilia, Dušan Bajević, and Jimmy Lai. After him are Alberto Manguel, Delio Onnis, John Dew, Donna Karan, Jaya Bachchan, and Vladimír Remek.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, László Lovász ranks 254 out of 1,077. Before him are András Hegedüs (1922), George Szell (1897), Jenő Hubay (1858), Géza Maróczy (1870), Miklós Kállay (1887), and János Kornai (1928). After him are Ferenc Plattkó (1898), George Tabori (1914), Fritz Reiner (1888), József Zakariás (1924), Anton Bernolák (1762), and László Kövér (1959).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Hungary

Among mathematicians born in Hungary, László Lovász ranks 9. Before him are John G. Kemeny (1926), George Pólya (1887), Peter Lax (1926), Marcel Grossmann (1878), Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930), and Klára Dán von Neumann (1911). After him are Frigyes Riesz (1880), Paul Halmos (1916), Endre Szemerédi (1940), Rózsa Péter (1905), Pál Turán (1910), and Dénes Kőnig (1884).

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