Jenő Hunyady (April 28, 1838 in
Pest – December 26, 1889 in
Budapest
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) was a
Hungarian mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
noted for his work on
conic section
In mathematics, a conic section, quadratic curve or conic is a curve obtained as the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane. The three types of conic section are the hyperbola, the parabola, and the ellipse; the circle is a spe ...
s and
linear algebra
Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerning linear equations such as:
:a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n=b,
linear maps such as:
:(x_1, \ldots, x_n) \mapsto a_1x_1+\cdots +a_nx_n,
and their representations in vector spaces and through matrices ...
, specifically on
determinants
In mathematics, the determinant is a scalar value that is a function of the entries of a square matrix. It characterizes some properties of the matrix and the linear map represented by the matrix. In particular, the determinant is nonzero if and ...
. He received his Ph.D. in
Göttingen
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General information
The ori ...
(1864). He worked at the
University of Technology
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of Budapest. He was elected a corresponding member (1867), member (1883) of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences. From 1885 he actively participated in the informal meetings of what became later the
Mathematical and Physical Society of Hungary.
References
Hunyady Jenõ Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon
* Márton Sain: Matematikatörténeti ABC, Typotex, Budapest, 1993
19th-century Hungarian mathematicians
1838 births
1889 deaths
Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Austro-Hungarian mathematicians
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