Gábor Halász (born 25 December 1941, in
Budapest
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) is a
Hungarian mathematician
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. He specialised in
number theory
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and
mathematical analysis
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, especially in
analytic number theory. He is a member of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Since 1985, he is professor at the
Faculty of Sciences of the
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
With
Pál Turán, Halász proved zero density results
on the roots of the
Riemann zeta function. He co-invented the Halász–Montgomery inequality
with
Hugh Montgomery.
Awards, prizes
*
Alfréd Rényi Prize (1972)
*
Paul Erdős Prize (1976)
*Tibor Szele Commemorative Medal of the
János Bolyai Mathematical Society (1985)
References
Sources
* Ki Kicsoda, 2006, MTI, Budapest.
* Halász'
homepageat the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
* A Magyar Tudományos Akadémai Almanachja, Budapest, 2006.
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1941 births
Living people
20th-century Hungarian mathematicians
21st-century Hungarian mathematicians
Number theorists
Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Mathematicians from Budapest
Academic staff of Eötvös Loránd University