Lipót, or Leopold (in German), Klug (23 January 1854 – 24 March 1945) was a Jewish-Hungarian[1] mathematician, professor in the Franz Joseph University of Kolozsvár.
Lipót (or Leopold) Klug | |
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| Born | 23 January 1854 Gyöngyös, Hungary |
| Died | 24 March 1945 (aged 91) Budapest, Hungary |
| Resting place | Kozma Street Cemetery 47°28′22″N 19°10′46″E / 47.47278°N 19.17944°E |
| Alma mater | University of Budapest |
| Parent(s) | Miksa Klug and Hani Neufeld |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Franz Joseph University |
Life and work edit
Klug attended the gymnasium of his hometown and entered in the university of Budapest in 1872 where he graduated as docent in 1874.[2] Between 1874 and 1893 he taught mathematics in the high school of Pozsony (now Bratislava in Slovakia). From 1893 to 1897 he was professor in a secondary school in Budapest and he obtained his habilitation in the university of Budapest. In 1897 he was appointed professor of geometry in the University of Kolozsvár.[3] He retired in 1917 and moved back to Budapest.
He died in 1944 or 1945 in strange circumstances: in the middle of the Second World War and aged ninety-one years, he walked out of his home in Budapest and he never came back. Probably he was the victim of racial hate because he was of Jewish descent.[4]
His work was greatly influenced by Gyula König. His areas of research were descriptive geometry and synthetic geometry.[5] During his retirement in Budapest he encouraged the young Edward Teller (the father of the hydrogen bomb).
See also edit
References edit
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Leopold Klug", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ Szenkovits 2014, p. 425.
- ^ Kántor-Varga 2006, p. 584.
- ^ Oláh-Gál 2009, p. 1.
- ^ Kántor-Varga 2006, p. 585.
Bibliography edit
- Kántor-Varga, T. (2006). "Biographies". In János Horváth (ed.). A Panorama of Hungarian Mathematics in the Twentieth Century. Springer. pp. 563–608. ISBN 3-540-28945-3.
- Oláh-Gál, Róbert (2009). "The Most Cited Hungarian Geometer of the Geometric Institution of the Technical University of Wien". Visual Mathematics: 1–6. ISSN 1821-1437.
- Szenkovits, Ferenc (2014). "Remarkable Hungarian mathematicians at the Cluj University". Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Mathematica. 59 (4): 419–433. ISSN 2065-961X.
External links edit
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Lipót Klug", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews