Biography:Zoltán Szabó (mathematician)

Short description: Hungarian mathematician

Zoltán Szabó
Born	1965 (age 58–59) Budapest, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian
Alma mater	Rutgers University Eötvös Loránd University
Known for	Heegaard Floer homology
Awards	Veblen Prize (2007)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Princeton University
Doctoral advisor	Ted Edgar Petrie John Morgan

Zoltán Szabó (born November 24, 1965) is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University known for his work on Heegaard Floer homology.

Education and career

Szabó received his B.A. from Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary in 1990, and he received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1994.

Together with Peter Ozsváth, Szabó created Heegaard Floer homology, a homology theory for 3-manifolds. For this contribution to the field of topology, Ozsváth and Szabó were awarded the 2007 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. In 2010, he was elected honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Selected publications

•    ; Ozsváth, Peter (2004), "Holomorphic disks and topological invariants for closed three-manifolds", Annals of Mathematics 159 (3): 1027–1158, doi:10.4007/annals.2004.159.1027 .
•    ; Ozsváth, Peter (2004), "Holomorphic disks and three-manifold invariants: properties and applications", Annals of Mathematics 159 (3): 1159–1245, doi:10.4007/annals.2004.159.1159 .
• Grid Homology for Knots and Links, American Mathematical Society, (2015)

External links

• Zoltán Szabó at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Personal homepage