Miklós Simonovits

Miklós Simonovits ( born September 4, 1943 in Budapest) is a Hungarian mathematician who deals with combinatorics.

Simonovits studied from 1962 to 1967 at the Eotvos Lorand University and then taught there. In 1970 he received his doctorate and habilitation in 1981 ( Ph.D. in Russian system ). He is since 1979 at the Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( corresponding member since 2001, full since 2007).

He was a visiting professor at a number of universities in the U.S. and Canada, visiting researchers in Denmark, India, Warsaw, the Lomonosov University and the University of Prague.

Simonovits is known for contributions to the extremal graph theory. He also deals with theoretical computer science, and random graphs. With Laszlo Lovasz he developed randomized algorithms for calculating the volume of convex bodies.

He frequently collaborated with Paul Erdos.

His father Istvan Simonovits (1907-1985) was hematologist and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.