Paul Erdős Legacy and Abel Prize Insights with László Lovász

Raffaella Mulas
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Raffaella Mulas: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 3 in Stories Behind Theorems, 2025, pp 13-24 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract László Lovász is a Hungarian mathematician and a Professor Emeritus at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He was awarded the 1979 SIAM Pólya Prize, the 1982 and the 2012 Fulkerson Prize, the 1999 Wolf Prize, the 1999 Knuth Prize, the 2001 Gödel Prize, the 2006 John von Neumann Theory Prize, the 2007 János Bolyai Creative Prize, the 2008 Széchenyi Prize, the 2010 Kyoto Prize and, most remarkably, the 2021 Abel Prize, which many consider to be the Nobel Prize of Mathematics. He is the former President of the International Mathematical Union, and the former President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was also one of the main collaborators of Paul Erdős.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-96078-9_3

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