Bela bollobas biography

Béla Bollobás FRS (born 3 August 1943) is a.
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Béla Bollobás FRS is a Hungarian-born British mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics, graph theory, and percolation.

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Biography

Béla Bollobás's father was a physician. Béla was brought up in Budapest where he attended school. He also had private tutors, not to teach him school subjects but to teach him other activities. These tutors, who had held important positions in Hungary before the Communists took over, had been forced out of their jobs and had taken up teaching. They included a former general, a count, a baroness and a former judge. Bollobás entered the mathematical competitions which were part of the Hungarian school tradition and, when he was fourteen years old, he won a national competition. By this time Paul Erdős was spending most of his time in Israel but returning to Hungary quite frequently. He was in Budapest for a couple of weeks when he heard that Bollobás had won the competition so he invited him to meet him at his hotel. They had lunch together and from that time on Erdős kept in touch with Bollobás, usually by letter but also seeing each other at times when Erdős was in Budapest. Much of Bollobás's early mathematical work was strongly influenced by Erdős and in fact his fi

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Béla Bollobás has made significant contributions to the mathematical field of combinatorics, with a particular focus on graph theory. Béla has influenced diverse areas such as random and extremal graphs, functional analysis, graph polynomials, percolation and isoperimetric inequalities.

His research highlights include his work on phase transitions in the evolution of random graphs. He also introduced the Bollobás–Riordan ribbon polynomial and made contributions to the development of a general model for heterogeneous sparse random graphs. In addition, Béla is the author of a number of popular and definitive textbooks on varied mathematical subjects.

Béla has received many accolades in recognition of his work, including the Senior Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society in 2007. As well as being a Fellow of the Royal Society, he has also been elected as an External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and as a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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