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== Awards and honours == Bollobás was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2011. His nomination reads Béla Bollobás is one of the world's leading mathematicians in combinatorics. He has a huge published output, which includes major contributions to many different branches of this very large area, such as random graphs, percolation, extremal graphs and set systems, isoperimetric inequalities, and more. In addition, through his classic textbooks, he has more or less defined many of these subjects. Britain is now one of the strongest countries for probabilistic and extremal combinatorics in the world: this is almost entirely due to Bollobás's influence. In 1998 he was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. He was elected Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2013, a Member of the Academy of Europea in 2017 and a member of Academia Brasileira Ciencias (ABC) in 2023. He received an honorary doctorate from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań in 2013. In 2016 he received the Bocskai Prize, the Széchenyi Prize in 2017 and the 2023 Friend of Hungary Prize.
== Personal life == His father was a physician. His wife, Gabriella Bollobás, born in Budapest, was an actress and a musician in Hungary before moving to England to become a sculptor. She made busts of mathematicians and scientists, including Paul Erdős, Bill Tutte, George Batchelor, John von Neumann, Paul Dirac, and Stephen Hawking, as well as a cast bronze of David Hilbert. He has one son, Mark. Bollobás is also a sportsman, having represented the University of Oxford at modern pentathlon and the University of Cambridge at fencing.
== Selected works == Extremal Graph Theory. Academic Press 1978,ISBN 978-0486435961 Dover 2004 (see here). Graph theory- an introductory course. Springer 1979,ISBN 978-1-4612-9969-1, doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-9967-7. Random Graphs. Academic Press 1985. Cambridge University Press 2001 ISBN 978-0-521-79722-1, doi:10.1017/CBO9780511814068. Combinatorics - set systems, hypergraphs, families of vectors, and combinatorial probability. Cambridge University Press 1986 ISBN 9780521337038. Linear Analysis – an introductory course. Cambridge University Press 1990, 1999 ISBN 978-0521655774,doi:10.1017/CBO9781139168472. with Alan Baker, András Hajnal (ed.): A tribute to Paul Erdös. Cambridge University Press 1990 doi:10.1017/CBO9780511983917,ISBN 978-0-521-60766-7. (ed.): Probabilistic combinatorics and its applications. American Mathematical Society 1991 ISBN 978-0-8218-5500-3. with Andrew Thomason (ed.): Combinatorics, Geometry and Probability- a tribute to Paul Erdös. Cambridge University Press 1997 doi:10.1017/CBO9780511662034, ISBN 978-0-521-60766-7. Modern Graph Theory. Springer 1998, doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-0619-4, ISBN 978-0387984889. (ed.): Contemporary Combinatorics. Springer und Janos Bolyai Mathematical Society, Budapest 2002 ISBN 978-3-642-07660-2. with Oliver Riordan: Percolation. Cambridge University Press 2006 doi:10.1017/CBO9781139167383, ISBN 978-0521872324. The Art of Mathematics – Coffee Time in Memphis. Cambridge University Press 2006 doi:10.1017/CBO9780511816574,ISBN 978-0521693950 (with drawings by his wife Gabrielle Bollobás) with Robert Kozma, Dezső Miklós: Handbook of Large-Scale Random Networks. Springer 2009, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-69395-6, ISBN 978-3540693949.
== References ==
== External links == Interview in the magazine Imprints, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore Béla Bollobás on Budapest protest, January 2012