Béla Kerékjártó
Mathematician, Deceased Person
1898 – 1946
Who was Béla Kerékjártó?
Béla Kerékjártó was a Hungarian mathematician who wrote numerous articles on topology.
Kerékjártó earned his Ph.D. degree from the University of Budapest. He taught at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Szeged from 1922, and at the University of Budapest from 1938. In 1923, he published one of the first books on Topology, and it was reviewed by Solomon Lefschetz in 1925. Hermann Weyl wrote that this book completely changed his views of the subject.
Kerékjártó proved that the sphere is the only compact surface that admits a 3-transitive topological group in 1941.
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- Born
- Oct 1, 1898
- Also known as
- Bela Kerekjarto
- Nationality
- Hungary
- Profession
- Education
- Eötvös Loránd University
- Died
- Jun 26, 1946
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on July 23, 2013
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