Mathematician:Béla Bollobás

Mathematician

Hungarian mathematician, now British, who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics, graph theory, and percolation.

Nationality

Hungarian-born British

History

• Born: 3 August 1943, Budapest, Hungary

Theorems and Definitions

• Bollobás-Riordan Polynomial (with Oliver Riordan)

Publications

• 1978: Extremal Graph Theory
• 1979: Graph Theory: an Introductory Course
• 1985: Random Graphs
• 1986: Combinatorics: Set Systems, Hypergraphs, Families of Vectors, and Combinatorial Probability
• 1990: Linear Analysis: an Introductory Course
• 1998: Modern Graph Theory
• 2006: Percolation (with Oliver Riordan)
• 2006: The Art of Mathematics: Coffee Time in Memphis (with drawings by his wife Gabrielle Bollobás)