Péter Kiss ( – ) was a Hungarian mathematician, Doctor of Mathematics, and professor of mathematics at
Eszterházy Károly College, who specialized in
number theory. In 1992 he won the Albert Szent-Györgyi Prize for his achievements.
Life
He was born in
Nagyréde
Nagyréde is a village in Heves County, Hungary.
The town is located about 8 kilometers west of Gyöngyös, next to Main road 3.
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Hungary, in 1937.
He majored in Mathematics and Physics from
Eötvös Loránd University
Eötvös Loránd University ( hu, Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, ELTE) is a Hungarian public research university based in Budapest. Founded in 1635, ELTE is one of the largest and most prestigious public higher education institutions in Hung ...
. After graduation, he taught mathematics at Gárdonyi Géza Secondary School in
Eger. In 1971 he was appointed to Teacher's College, and in 1972 he began teaching at the Department of Mathematics of Eszterházy Károly University.
He earned the Doctorate of Mathematics degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1999.
He was the doctoral advisor for mathematicians like Ferenc Mátyás, Sándor Molnár, Béla Zay, Kálman Liptai, László Szalay. He also assisted other colleagues like Bui Minh Phong, Lászlo Gerőcs, and Pham Van Chung, in the writing of their dissertations.
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He was a member of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society, where he held different positions.
Many of his academic papers have been published in th]
zbMATH
database in the ''Periodica Mathematica Hungarica'', in the ''Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series A'', in '' Mathematics of Computation'', in the '' Fibonacci Quarterly'', and in the American Mathematical Society journals.[
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20th-century Hungarian mathematicians
1937 births
2002 deaths
Number theorists