Ottó Varga

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Ottó Varga (born November 22, 1909 in Szepetnek (Zala county) , † June 14, 1969 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian mathematician .

Life and career

Ottó Varga's family changed their place of residence when Varga was still a child, and Varga experienced his youth in Poprad . He attended elementary school in nearby Kesmark .

He began studying architecture at the Vienna University of Technology , but then moved to Prague in 1928 , where he continued his studies at both Charles University and the Technical University .

In 1933 Varga was the teacher - diploma in the subjects of mathematics and physics and a doctorate in the same year with a dissertation on Finsler spaces under the guidance of Ludwig Berwald for Dr. phil.

In the 1934/35 academic year, Varga continued his studies under Wilhelm Blaschke at the University of Hamburg . He returned to Prague in 1936 and completed his habilitation there in 1937. After the occupation of Czechoslovakia , he moved back to Hungary in 1941, first to Kolozsvár and then in 1942 to Debrecen .

From 1958 to 1967 Varga was a professor at the Technical University of Budapest and then worked at the Mathematical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences until his death .

Ottó Varga spoke several languages ​​and, in particular, spoke perfect German and Czech . His scientific publications are almost exclusively written in German.

He died in 1969 as a result of a heart condition .

Scientific achievements

Ottó Varga dealt mainly with geometry , not least with integral and differential geometry as well as with non-Euclidean geometry , and worked in particular on the analogies between Riemannian and Finslerian geometry . Here he did pioneering work. Varga was the author or co-author of 57 scientific papers .

Varga's students include Gyula Soós , Miklós Farkas , Arthur Moór and János Szenthe .

Together with Alfréd Rényi and Tibor Szele he founded the Publicationes Mathematicae Debrecen .

Honors

Ottó Varga received the Gyula Kőnig Prize in 1944 and the Kossuth Prize in 1952 . In 1950 the Hungarian Academy of Sciences elected him a corresponding member and in 1965 a full member .

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SURNAME Varga, Ottó
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Szepetnek (Zala County)
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1969
Place of death Budapest