László Fejes Tóth

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László Fejes Tóth (born March 12, 1915 in Szeged , † March 17, 2005 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian mathematician .

László Fejes Tóth, 1991.
Photo: Ludwig Danzer

Life

László Tóth is known for his work in the field of convex geometry and finite packing of spheres . In 1953 he was able to provide an important basis for the proof of Kepler's conjecture in a paper by reducing the problem to a complicated calculation. He also predicted that the evidence could probably only be computerized . This came true when Thomas Hales later submitted computer-aided evidence. Furthermore, he made the sausage presumption . His alternative honeycomb , which would save significantly less than a per thousand of the wax compared to the real one , also became well known . His honeycomb conjecture was proven by Thomas Hales, who used methods similar to those used in the proof of the Kepler conjecture . There he followed a path that Fejes Tóth himself had suggested for the solution of this conjecture.

Tóth was a professor in Budapest at the Alfred Renyi Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which he headed from 1970 to 1982 after Renyi's death. In 1960/61 he was visiting professor at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and in 1963/64 at the University of Wisconsin . László Fejes Tóth is the father of the well-known mathematician Gábor Fejes Tóth .

László Tóth was a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and the Braunschweingische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft , a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences . On June 11, 1991 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Salzburg .

Works

László Fejes Tóth, Vienna 1987
Photo: Konrad Jacobs
  • Bearings in the plane, on the sphere and in space . 2., verb. u. exp. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 1972, ISBN 0-387-05477-4 (XI, 238 pages). First edition Julius Springer Verlag 1953 (older standard work in this field).
  • Regular Figures . Pergamon Press, Oxford 1964 (XI, 339 pp.).
  • Regular figures . Publishing house of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest 1965 (316 pages, 13 supplements in back pocket).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinrich Hemme: The mathematics of the honeycombs. In: Spektrum der Wissenschaft , February 2002, pp. 78–82
  2. ↑ Rényi Alfréd Matematikai Kutatóintézet - Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
personal data
SURNAME Fejes Tóth, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Szeged
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 2005
Place of death Budapest