About Béla Bollobás
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 theory. He was strongly influenced by Paul Erdős from the age of 14. He is currently a professor and chair of excellence at the University of Memphis. While still at high school in Hungary, Bollobás took part in the first three International Mathematical Olympiads, in 1959, 1960, and 1961, winning two gold medals. Bollobás's first publication was a joint paper with Erdős, on extremal problems in graph theory, written in 1962 while he was still in high school. Bollobás recalled, "By then, I said to myself, 'If I ever manage to leave Hungary, I won't return.'" In 1970, he was awarded a fellowship at the college.
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