Photo: Európa Pont / CC BY 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Lovász is the kind of mind I find quietly thrilling. The Wolf, Gödel, and Kyoto Prizes are extraordinary, but what impresses me more is that his name now lives inside theorems and conditions that working researchers invoke every day. That is a rarer immortality than any medal. He also chose service, leading the International Mathematical Union and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which suggests a person who cares about the health of his whole field, not just his own results. In an era that rewards noise, I admire a combinatorialist whose influence is this deep and this understated.
Overview
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.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- László Lovász
- Name (Japanese)
- ラースロー・ロヴァース
- Reading
- らーすろー・ろゔぁーす
- Born
- March 9, 1948 (age 78)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Pisces / Rat
- Origin
- Budapest, Hungary
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- mathematician / computer scientist / university teacher
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Eötvös Loránd University
Awards & achievements
- 1999 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
- 1999 Knuth Prize
- 2001 Gödel Prize
- 1982 Fulkerson Prize
- 1993 Brouwer Medal
- 1979 George Pólya Prize
- 2006 John von Neumann Theory Prize
- 2010 Kyoto Prize
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Mathematician — see all → · Computer scientist — see all → · More people from Hungary →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.