# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lajos-posa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:34:32.683Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lajos-posa"
name: "Lajos Pósa"
slug: "lajos-posa"
description: "Lajos Pósa is a Hungarian mathematician working in the topic of combinatorics, and one of the most prominent mathematics educators of Hungary, best known for his mathematics camps for gifted students. He is a winner of the Széchenyi Prize.\nPaul Erdős's favorite \"child\", he discovered theorems at the age of 13. Since 2002, he has worked at the Rényi Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; earlier he was at the Eötvös Loránd University, at the Departments of Mathematical Analysis, Computer Science."
tagline: "(1947–) Hungarian mathematician"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1947-12-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.275414666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Lajos Pósa (mathematician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B3_%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7"
    title: "لاچوس پوسا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_P%C3%B3sa"
    title: "Lajos Pósa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3sa_Lajos_(matematikus)"
    title: "Pósa Lajos (matematikus)"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_P%C3%B3sa_(matematikisto)"
    title: "Lajos Pósa (matematikisto)"
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    title: "لایوش پوشا"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump