László Fuchs

László Fuchs (born June 24, 1924) is a Hungarian-born American mathematician, the Evelyn and John G. Phillips Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Mathematics at Tulane University.

[2][3] Fuchs was born on June 24, 1924, in Budapest,[4] into an academic family: his father was a linguist and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

[4][5] After teaching high school mathematics for two years, and then holding positions at Eötvös Loránd, the Mathematical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the University of Miami, he joined the Tulane faculty in 1968.

The other honorees included John Horvath, János Aczél, Ákos Császár and Steven Gaal.

[7] Fuchs has nearly 100 academic descendants, many of them through his student at Eötvös Loránd, George Grätzer.