Farkas Gyula, or Julius Farkas (March 28, 1847, Sárosd

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, Fejér County - December 27, 1930, Pestszentlőrinc

Pestszentlorinc

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) was a Hungarian mathematician

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 and physicist

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.

He attended the gymnasium

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 at Győr

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 (Raab), and studied law and philosophy

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 at Budapest

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. After teaching in a secondary school at Székesfehérvár

Székesfehérvár

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 (Stuhlweissenburg), Farkas became in succession principal of the normal school at Pápa

Pápa

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, privat-docent (1881) of mathematics at the University of Budapest, and professor

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 of physics (1888) at Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca, Klausenburg). The Hungarian Academy of Science elected him corresponding member May 6, 1898.

Literary works

His principal writings are embodied in the reports of the Academy of Science of Paris (1878-1884)

• the "Archiv der Mathematik und Physik"
• the "Journal des Mathematiques"

His separately published works are:

• "Die Diatomische Dur-Scale", Budapest, 1870
• "Termeszettan Elemei" (Elements of Physics), ib. 1872

External links

• Farkas bio (English)