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Lajos Pósa

(1947-) Hungarian mathematician · Hungary · On the map · Academics

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. Paul Erdős's favorite "child", he discovered theorems at the age of 13.

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A life in dates

2014Prima Primissima PrizeAward2011Széchenyi PrizeAward1998Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of MeritAward1981Manó Beke PrizeAward1947Born9 December 1947

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Awards

Prima Primissima Prize2014
Széchenyi Prize2011
Officer's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit1998
Manó Beke Prize1981

About this person

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.

Country
Hungary
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1947 · age 78