Lipót Klug
Lipót, or Leopold (in German), Klug (1854–1945) was a Jewish-Hungarian[1] mathematician, professor in the Franz Joseph University of Kolozsvár.
Lipót (or Leopold) Klug | |
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Born | |
Died | March 24, 1945 91) | (aged
Resting place | Kozma Street Cemetery 47°28′22″N 19°10′46″E |
Alma mater | University of Budapest |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Franz Joseph University |
Life and work
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
References
- 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
- 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Szenkovits, Ferenc (2014). "Remarkable Hungarian mathematicians at the Cluj University". Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Mathematica. 59 (4): 419–433. ISSN 2065-961X.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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