Interview with László Lovász

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 mathematicians’ equivalent of the Nobel Prize. He is the former president of the International Mathematical Union, and of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in addition to being one of the main collaborators of Paul Erdős.

Raffaella Mulas interviewed him in June 2023, while visitingthe Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Budapest.