Gyula Strommer

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Gyula Strommer
His bust at Budapest Technical University
Born(1920-05-08)8 May 1920
Aiud
Died28 June 1995(1995-06-28) (aged 75)
Budapest, Hungary
CitizenshipHungarian
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics

Gyula Strommer (8 May 1920 – 28 August 1995) was a Hungarian mathematician and astronomer.[1][2]

He discovered an asteroid, 1537 Transylvania, on 27 August 1940. This was his first scientific success. From 1942, he was a teaching assistant at the Descriptive Geometry Department of the Technical University of Budapest. In 1952, he became the head of the Descriptive Geometry Department. In 1972, he was appointed a university professor. Between 1981 and 1987, he was the dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

His research topics: the foundations of geometry, Bolyai-Lobachevsky geometry.

References

  1. ^ * E. Molnár: Constructions in the absolute plane – To the memory of Gyula Strommer (1920-1995), Journal for Geometry and Graphics Volume 20 (2016), No. 1, 63–73., Online
  2. ^ "Strommer Gyula Nemzetközi Geometria Alapitv´ny". math.bme.hu. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
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