Academia Europaea: Erasmus Medal to László Lovász

Academia Europaea (European Academy of Sciences) awards Erasmus Medal to László Lovász, Hungarian research professor at the HUN-REN Rényi Alfréd Mathematical Research Institute and former president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, for his outstanding international scientific work.

In a statement sent to MTI on Friday, the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network emphasized that the Erasmus Medal is one of, if not the highest, recognition that the Academia Europaea can give to a scientist for scientific achievement.

The medal will be presented at the European organization's annual conference in Barcelona in mid-October, where the honoree will also give a lecture.

According to the tribute on the Academia Europaea website, László Lovász is one of the outstanding mathematicians of our time, whose work over the past sixty years has been influential in both discrete mathematics and computer science. He is perhaps the most influential theorist in discrete mathematics, they wrote.

A pioneer in the interaction between computer science, discrete and continuous mathematics, he is a master at discovering unexpected connections between seemingly distant fields, and his elegant and powerful ideas have created new subfields in many areas, they said.

László Lovász was born in Budapest in 1948. He is an Abel Prize and Wolf Prize-winning mathematician, academician and was president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences between 2014 and 2020. Within discrete mathematics, he is primarily involved with combinatorics, including graph theory and computer science. He is the author and co-author of more than 300 scientific publications and more than ten books.