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. He is known for his research and textbooks in group theory and abstract algebra.

Biography Fuchs was born on June 24, 1924, in Budapest, 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.

In 2004, Fuchs was honored at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 80th anniversary as one of the "big five" most distinguished Hungarian mathematicians. The other honorees were John Horvath, János Aczél, Ákos Császár and Steven Gaal. Fuchs has nearly 100 academic descendants, many of them through his student at Eötvös Loránd, George Grätzer.

Books . Reprinted by Pergamon Press, International Series of Monographs on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 1960. . Translated into Russian and German. Two conferences were dedicated to him on the occasion of his 70th birthday, and another on his 75th.