Ottó Varga
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 .
Web links
- Web link to "A Panorama of Hungarian Mathematics in the Twentieth Century, I"
- List of Varga's work on MathSciNet
- Entry in "The Mathematics Genealogy Project"
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- Lajos Tamássy : Commemoration on Ottó Varga on the centenary of his birth . In: Acta Math. Acad. Pedagogue. Nyházi. (NS) . tape 26 , 2010, p. 129-138 ( [1] ). MR2754411
- András Rapcsák : Ottó Varga (1909–1969) . In: Matematikai Lapok . tape 21 , 1970, pp. 19-30 . MR0304123
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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 |