Paul Dienes ( Hungarian: ''Dienes Pál''. November 24, 1882

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– March 23, 1952) was a Hungarian mathematician, philosopher, linguist and poet. Born in to a wealthy and aristocratic Protestant family, he married Valéria Geiger (1879–1978) in December 1905. They had two sons, Gedeon Dienes (1914) and Zoltan Paul Dienes (1916). Following their divorce, he married

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in 1922. He was an active member of the

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. Dienes joined the

Hungarian Communist Party The Hungarian Communist Party ( hu, Magyar Kommunista Párt, abbr. MKP), known earlier as the Party of Communists in Hungary ( hu, Kommunisták Magyarországi Pártja, abbr. KMP), was a communist party in Hungary that existed during the interwar ...

during the establishment of the

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and in 1919 was appointed the political commissar of the

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. After the fall of the Soviet Republic he fled to Vienna and was later invited to the United Kingdom. From 1921 to 1923 he lectured at

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, where his students included

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. From 1923 to 1948 he was Professor of Mathematics at Birkbeck College, London, where his students included Ralph Henstock and

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References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dienes, Paul 1882 births 1952 deaths 20th-century Hungarian mathematicians Austro-Hungarian mathematicians 20th-century Hungarian philosophers Hungarian Communist Party politicians Hungarian philologists Hungarian emigrants to the United Kingdom