Mathematics

Frigyes Riesz

I played a major role in the creation and expansion of the legendary library of the Bolyai Institute. Russian mathematicians also owe a lot...

Marcell Riesz

I left a rich and intensive correspondence for posterity, with my brother Frigyes. He asked me to write about the events of the war...

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

I was born in Potsdam, to Ashkenazi Jewish parents. My father was a banker. As a Prussian mathematician, I am considered one of the...

Pál Turán

I was born in Budapest. As a mathematician, I am the creator and researcher of methods of number theory. I obtained the Kossuth Prize...

Frigyes Riesz

I was born in Győr, Hungary. I was one of the creators of the Riesz–Fischer theorem, which states that in certain cases, funcions...

George Pólya

I was born in Budapest. As a mathematician, I am the creator of the method of heuristics (the art of discovery). I wrote my...

Alfréd Rényi

I was born in Budapest. I contributed to solving the Goldbach conjecture, which states that every even integer greater than 2 can be expressed...

Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman

I was born in Leningrad to a family of intellectuals. As a mathematician, I gained worldwide fame due to my proving of the Poincaré...

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

I was born in Warsaw to a Jewish family of Lithuanian origins. My family emigrated to France in 1936. As a mathematician, I am...

Hermann Minkowski

I was born in the Russian Empire. As a mathematician, I devised the geometry of numbers, and applied geometric methods to solve complex problems....