József Solymosi is a Hungarian-Canadian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia.

[3] From 2001 to 2003 he was S. E. Warschawski Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego.

Solymosi was the first online contributor to the first Polymath Project, set by Timothy Gowers to find improvements to the Hales–Jewett theorem.

This result is connected to the Erdős–Anning theorem, according to which an infinite set of points with integer distances must lie on one line.

[6][ID] In connection with the related Erdős–Ulam problem, on the existence of dense subsets of the plane for which all distances are rational numbers, Solymosi and de Zeeuw proved that every infinite rational-distance set must either be dense in the Zariski topology or it must have all but finitely many of its points on a single line or circle.

in the exponent) a conjecture of Toth, and was inspired by an analogue of the Szemerédi–Trotter theorem for lines in the complex plane.

[11][DD] In 2006, Solymosi received a Sloan Research Fellowship[12] and in 2008 he was awarded the André Aisenstadt Mathematics Prize.