Rózsa Péter

Who was Rózsa Péter?

Rózsa Péter was a Hungarian mathematician. She is best known for her work with recursion theory.

Péter was born in Budapest, Hungary, as Rózsa Politzer. She attended Eötvös Loránd University, where she received her PhD in 1935. After the passage of the Jewish Laws of 1939 in Hungary, she was forbidden to teach because of her Jewish origin. After the war she published her key work, Recursive Functions.

She taught at Eötvös Loránd University from 1955 until her retirement in 1975. She was a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

works: "Playing with Infinity: Mathematical Explorations and Excursions" New York 2010