Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat

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The Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat (BJMT, János Bolyai Mathematical Society ) is the Hungarian mathematical society named after János Bolyai . It was founded in Szeged in 1947 and moved its headquarters to Budapest in 1949 . Today (2006) it has about 2500 members.

The BJMT has been a member of the IMU since 1956 . Together with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA) it organizes the Hungarian national mathematics congresses, first in 1950. It also organizes special congresses (such as 1952 in memory of János Bolyai) and annual conferences on special mathematical subjects. It publishes the congress reports, monographs and lectures and publishes two English-language journals ( Periodica Mathematica Hungarica since 1971 and Combinatorica since 1981) as well as several Hungarian journals: Mathematisches Journal (Matematikai Lapok, since 1950), Középiskolai Matematikai Lapok (Mathematical Journal for High Schools) , both were published by the previous organization. She also publishes the Journal for Applied Mathematics (Alkalmazott Matematikai Lapok) and Abacus (for schoolchildren) and from 1953 to 1990 a mathematics teaching journal (A Matematika Tanítása).

The society is the successor to the Mathematical and Physical Society (MFT, Matematikai és Fisikai Társulat, from 1921 Lórand Eötvös Mathematical and Physical Society, ELMFT) founded in 1891. This was initiated by Loránd Eötvös of a regular meeting of physicists and mathematicians of the two then-existing Hungarian universities, the Technical University of Budapest and the University in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca in Romania). The first president was Eötvös, vice-president Gyula König . The membership was around 400 in 1891 and a mathematical and physical journal was published (Matematikai és Fizikai Lapok), first by Gusztáv Rados (the Society's first secretary), from 1914 by Lipót Fejér and from 1932 by Dénes König . In addition, from 1894, the society organized a mathematics and physics competition for high school students, later called the Lorand Eötvös competition. Other competitions were added, the József-Kürschák-Competition for high school students, from 1949 the Miklós-Schweitzer-Competition for students, and 1985 to 1999 the Tamas-Varga-Competition for students. When it was re-founded in 1947, Frigyes Riesz , Gyula Szőkefalvi-Nagy and Lipot Fejer were honorary presidents.

From 1918 the König Prize was awarded to young mathematicians in memory of Gyula König. Further prices are:

  • the Manó Beke Prize, which has been awarded annually to up to seven people for mathematics education since 1950,
  • the Géza Grünwald Prize, which has been awarded annually to up to four young scientists since 1953,
  • the Tibor Szele Medal, which has been awarded annually to mathematicians in school since 1970,
  • the Kató Rényi Prize (named after the mathematician and wife of Alfréd Rényi , who died in 1969 ), which has been awarded to up to eight students annually since 1973,
  • the Gyula Farkas Prize, which has been awarded annually to young scientists since 1973
  • Prize of the Patai Society, which has been awarded annually to young scientists since 1986.

Presidents of the society were László Rédei (1947 to 1949), György Alexits (1949–1963), György Hajós (1963–1972), László Fejes Tóth (1971–1975), Pál Turán (1975/76), János Surányi (1976– 1980), Ákos Császár (1980–1990), András Hajnal (1990–1996), Imre Csiszár (1996–2006), Gyula OH Katona (2006–2018). Currently (2018) Péter Pál Pálfy is President.

literature

  • Ákos Császár in the European Mathematical Society Newsletter March 2006

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References

  1. ↑ Problem collections from these competitions were also published as books, the first volume (editor József Kürschák ) also in English translation in 1953
  2. ↑ The Problems were also published as a book. The competition was named after a student who died in the Holocaust