László Lovász

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.

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

Occupation

mathematician / computer scientist / university teacher

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

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.cs.elte.hu/~lovasz/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9

Tags

• mathematician
• computer scientist
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-02

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