Rózsa Péter, Hungarian name

Hungarian name

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 Péter Rózsa, (17 February 1905–16 February 1977) was a Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 mathematician

Mathematics

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. She is best known for her work with recursion theory

Recursion theory

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Péter was born in Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

, Hungary, as Rózsa Politzer (Hungarian: Politzer Rózsa). She attended Eötvös Loránd University, where she received her Ph.D. 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

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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 (1973).

External links

• "Rózsa Péter", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
  Agnes Scott College
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• www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/peter.html