The János Bolyai Mathematical Society (Bolyai János Matematikai Társulat, BJMT) is the Hungarian mathematical society, named after János Bolyai

János Bolyai

János Bolyai was a Hungarian mathematician, known for his work in non-Euclidean geometry.Bolyai was born in the Transylvanian town of Kolozsvár , then part of the Habsburg Empire , the son of Zsuzsanna Benkő and the well-known mathematician Farkas Bolyai.-Life:By the age of 13, he had mastered...

, a 19th century Hungarian mathematician, a co-discoverer of non-Euclidean geometry

Non-Euclidean geometry

Non-Euclidean geometry is the term used to refer to two specific geometries which are, loosely speaking, obtained by negating the Euclidean parallel postulate, namely hyperbolic and elliptic geometry. This is one term which, for historical reasons, has a meaning in mathematics which is much...

. It is the professional society of the Hungarian mathematicians, applied mathematicians, and mathematics teachers. It was founded in 1947, as one of the two successor societies of the Mathematical and Physical Society (Matematikai és Fizikai Társulat) founded in 1891. It is a member-society of the European Mathematical Society

European Mathematical Society

The European Mathematical Society is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians...

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Presidents of the Society

• László Rédei
  László Rédei
  László Rédei was a Hungarian mathematician.He graduated from the University of Budapest and initially worked as a schoolteacher...
  
   (1947–1949)
• György Alexits (1949–1963)
• György Hajós
  György Hajós
  György Hajós was a Hungarian mathematician who worked in group theory, graph theory, and geometry.-Biography:...
  
   (1963–1972)
• László Fejes Tóth
  László Fejes Tóth
  László Fejes Tóth was a Hungarian mathematician who specialised in geometry. He proved that a honeycomb pattern is the most efficient way to pack centrally symmetric convex sets on the Euclidean plane . He also investigated packings on the sphere...
  
   (1972–1975)
• Pál Turán
  Pál Turán
  Paul Turán was a Hungarian mathematician who worked primarily in number theory. He had a long collaboration with fellow Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, lasting 46 years and resulting in 28 joint papers.- Life and education :...
  
   (1975–1976)
• János Surányi (1976–1980)
• Ákos Császár
  Ákos Császár
  Ákos Császár is a Hungarian mathematician, specializing in general topology and real analysis. He discovered the Császár polyhedron, a nonconvex polyhedron without diagonals...
  
   (1980–1990)
• András Hajnal
  András Hajnal
  András Hajnal is an emeritus professor of mathematics at Rutgers University and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences known for his work in set theory and combinatorics.-Biography:Hajnal was born on 13 May 1931, in Hungary....
  
   (1990–1996)
• Imre Csiszár
  Imre Csiszár
  Imre Csiszár is a Hungarian mathematician with contributions to information theoryand probability theory. In 1996 he won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest annualaward given in the field of information theory....
  
   (1996–2006)
• Gyula Katona
  Gyula O. H. Katona
  Gyula O. H. Katona is a Hungarian mathematician known for his work in combinatorial set theory, and especially for the Kruskal–Katona theorem and his elegant proof of the Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem...
  
   (2006–)

Periodicals

The society publishes the following periodicals.

• Középiskolai Matematikai Lapok
  Középiskolai Matematikai és Fizikai Lapok
  Középiskolai Matematikai és Fizikai Lapok is a Hungarian mathematics and physics journal for high school students...
  
   (KöMaL) monthly for highschool students (since 1894)
• Matematikai Lapok a journal containing expository articles and reports on the activities af the Society (since 1950)
• Periodica Mathematica Hungarica a general mathematics research journal (since 1971)
• Combinatorica
  Combinatorica
  Combinatorica is an international journal of mathematics, publishing papers in the fields of combinatorics and computer science. It started in 1981, with László Babai and László Lovász as the editors-in-chief with Paul Erdős as honorary editor-in-chief. The current editors-in-chief are László...
  
  , a journal publishing original research papers in combinatorics
  Combinatorics
  Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics concerning the study of finite or countable discrete structures. Aspects of combinatorics include counting the structures of a given kind and size , deciding when certain criteria can be met, and constructing and analyzing objects meeting the criteria ,...
  
   and computer science
  Computer science
  Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
  
   (since 1981)

Awards

• Manó Beke Commemorative Prize, given to at most 7 mathematics teachers (since 1950)
• Géza Grünwald Commemorative Prize for young researchers (since 1953)
• Gyula Farkas
  Gyula Farkas (natural scientist)
  Farkas Gyula, or Julius Farkas was a Hungarian mathematician and physicist.He attended the gymnasium at Győr , and studied law and philosophy at Budapest...
  
   Commemorative Prize to young researchers in applied mathematics (since 1973)
• Tibor Szele
  Tibor Szele
  Tibor Szele Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics and abstract algebra. After graduating at the Debrecen University, he became a researcher at the Szeged University in 1946, then he went back at the Debrecen University in 1948 where he became full professor in 1952...
  
   Commemorative Medal for major researchers who created scientific schools
• László Patai Commemorative Prize for supporting one student or young researcher (since 1994)

Competitions

• the József Kürschák Mathematical Competition for high school students (since 1891)
• the Miklós Schweitzer Competition
  Miklós Schweitzer Competition
  The Miklós Schweitzer Competition is an annual Hungarian mathematics competition for university undergraduates, established in 1949.It is named after Miklós Schweitzer The Miklós Schweitzer Competition (Schweitzer Miklós Matematikai Emlékverseny in Hungarian) is an annual Hungarian mathematics...
  
  

External links

• the homepage of the society
• Ákos Császár
  Ákos Császár
  Ákos Császár is a Hungarian mathematician, specializing in general topology and real analysis. He discovered the Császár polyhedron, a nonconvex polyhedron without diagonals...
  
  : The Hungarian Mathematical Society, Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society, March 2006, issue 59.