Gusztáv Rados (22 February 1862 – 1 November 1942) was a Hungarian mathematician. He specialized in

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algebra Algebra is a branch of mathematics that deals with abstract systems, known as algebraic structures, and the manipulation of expressions within those systems. It is a generalization of arithmetic that introduces variables and algebraic ope ...

, and

differential geometry Differential geometry is a Mathematics, mathematical discipline that studies the geometry of smooth shapes and smooth spaces, otherwise known as smooth manifolds. It uses the techniques of Calculus, single variable calculus, vector calculus, lin ...

.Austrian Academy of Sciences Biographical Encyclopedia: Gusztáv Rados
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Education and career

Rados was born on 22 February 1862 in Pest. He studied mathematics at the

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(1879-1883). In 1884 and 1885 he studied under

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in Leipzig and in 1885 returned to the Technical University in Budapest, where he became a professor and was temporarily rector.Gustav Rados
Bolyai Society: A Panorama of Hungarian Mathematics Along with Julius König,

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and Felix Klein he was on the committee that awarded the Bolyai Prize. In 1907 he became a member of the

. He was a founding member of the Physical and Mathematical Society in Budapest, and in 1913 its vice president and in 1933 its president. In 1936 he was awarded the Grand Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was an invited speaker at the

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in 1897 and in

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in 1908. He died on 1 November 1942 in

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Works

* ''Zur Theorie der adjungirten Substitutionen''. In: Mathematische Annalen. 48. Band (1897), pp. 417–424 * ''Zur Theorie der adjungierten quadratischen Formen''. In: Verhandlungen des ersten internationalen Mathematiker-Kongresses in Zürich vom 9. bis 11. August 1897. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1898, pp. 163–165

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rados, Gusztáv 1862 births 1942 deaths Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest University of Technology and Economics alumni Academic staff of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics 19th-century Hungarian mathematicians 20th-century Hungarian mathematicians People from Pest, Hungary Mathematicians from Austria-Hungary