János Surányi

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János Surányi (born May 29, 1918 in Budapest ; † December 8, 2006 there ) was a Hungarian mathematician , mathematics didactic and university professor .

Life and career

János Surányi studied at the University of Szeged from 1937 to 1941 . During the Second World War , he was drafted into the labor service from 1942 to 1945 . He continued his studies in Szeged from 1945-48 and then worked from 1948 to 1951 for the Hungarian Ministry of Education and at the Hungarian Institute for Education . In 1953 he received his doctorate in mathematical sciences . From 1951 to 1988 Surányi was a professor at the Budapest Eötvös Loránd University . In the 1970/71 academic year he was visiting professor at the University of Sherbrooke ( Québec , Canada ).

From 1976 to 1980 Surányi was President of the Hungarian Mathematical Society ( Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat ). In addition, he chaired the organizing committee of the József Kürschák competition for high school students for several decades .

The scientific work Surányis extended in mathematics on the areas number theory , combinatorics , approximation theory and mathematical logic . In the latter, he worked in particular on the decision problem .

Honors

János Surányi received the Manó Beke Prize in 1952 .

Fonts

János Surányi is the author or co-author of numerous publications , including 3 monographs and 37 scientific papers in mathematics, 19 scientific papers in mathematics didactics and 27 scientific papers and 8 books on general subjects.

The following monograph on number theory that Surányi wrote together with Paul Erdős is particularly well known :

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SURNAME Surányi, János
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian mathematician, mathematics teacher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2006
Place of death Budapest