Laszlo Lovasz

Laszlo Lovasz (born March 9, 1948, in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian mathematician and computer scientist, professor emeritus at Eotvos Lorand University and a dual Hungarian and American citizen. His work in combinatorics, graph theory and theoretical computer science includes proving Kneser's conjecture, developing the Lovasz local lemma, formulating the Erdos-Faber-Lovasz conjecture, and co-developing the LLL lattice basis reduction algorithm. He received the Knuth Prize in 1999, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1999, the Godel Prize in 2001, the John von Neumann Theory Prize in 2006, the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences in 2010, and the Abel Prize in 2021, the latter shared with Avi Wigderson for foundational contributions to theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics.