László Fejes Tóth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

László Fejes Tóth

Hungarian mathematician

Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1915

Place of Birth: Szeged, Csongrád County, Hungary

Date of Death: 17-Mar-2005

Profession: mathematician

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

László Fejes Tóth (Hungarian: Fejes Tóth László, pronounced ['f?j?? 'to?t 'la?slo?] Szeged, 12 March 1915 – Budapest, 17 March 2005) was a Hungarian mathematician who specialized in geometry.
He proved that a lattice pattern is the most efficient way to pack centrally symmetric convex sets on the Euclidean plane (a generalization of Thue's theorem, a 2-dimensional analog of the Kepler conjecture).
He also investigated the sphere packing problem.
He was the first to show, in 1953, that proof of the Kepler conjecture can be reduced to a finite case analysis and, later, that the problem might be solved using a computer. He was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (from 1962) and a director of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (1970-1983).
He received both the Kossuth Prize (1957) and State Award (1973).Together with H.S.M.
Coxeter and Paul Erdos, he laid the foundations of discrete geometry.