Imre Bárány

Imre Bárány (Mátyásföld, Budapest, 7 December 1947) is a Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics and discrete geometry. He works at the Rényi Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and has a part-time appointment at University College London.

Notable results He gave a surprisingly simple alternative proof of László Lovász's theorem on Kneser graphs. He solved an old problem of James Joseph Sylvester on the probability of random point sets in convex position. With Van H. Vu proved a central limit theorem on random points in convex bodies. He was an Erdős Lecturer at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2004. He was elected a corresponding (2010), full (2016) member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Since 2021, he is a member of the Academia Europaea.

He is an editor-in-chief for the journal Combinatorica, and an Editorial Board member for Mathematika and the Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics. He is area editor of the journal Mathematics of Operations Research.