Gustav Rados
Gustav Rados , also Gusztáv Rados , (born February 22, 1862 in Pest , † November 1, 1942 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian mathematician.
Life
Rados studied mathematics at the University and Technical University of Budapest from 1879 to 1883. In 1884/85 he was with Felix Klein in Leipzig and from 1885 at the Technical University in Budapest, where he became a professor and was temporarily rector.
Rados dealt with number theory, about which he published in 1882, linear algebra, algebra and differential geometry.
He was with Julius König , Gaston Darboux and Felix Klein on the committee of the Bolyai Prize, which received, among others, Henri Poincaré .
He was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich in 1897 and in Rome in 1908. In 1894 he became a corresponding and in 1907 a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was a founding member of the Physical and Mathematical Society in Budapest, its Vice-President in 1913 and President in 1933. In 1936 he received the Grand Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was an honorary doctor of the Kolozsvar University.
His brother Ignác Rados (1859-1944) was a mathematics teacher in Budapest and a math historian.
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| SURNAME | Rados, Gustav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rados, Gusztáv |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hungarian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | pest |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1942 |
| Place of death | Budapest |