Kalmár

László Kalmár

Born: 27 March 1905 in Edde, Hungary
Died: 2 Aug 1976 in Mátraháza, Hungary

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Kalmár was a student at Budapest working under Fejér. Then he took up a post in Szeged where he remained for the rest of his life.

He worked on mathematical logic solving certain cases of the decision problem for the first order predicate calculus, simplified results of Bernays, worked on ideas of Post, Gödel and Church. He was ackowledged as the leader of Hungarian mathematical logic.

Kalmár was also involved in theoretical computer science and promoted the development of computer science and the use of computers in Hungary. His special fields of interest in computer science included programming languages, automatic error correction, non-numerical applications of computers and the connection between computer science and mathematical logic.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. R Péter, The mathematical activity of László Kalmár, Matematikai Lapok 6 (1955), 138-150.
  3. A Adam, The mathematical activity of László Kalmár, Matematikai Lapok 26 (1977), 1-10.
  4. M Arató, The work of academician László Kalmár in the field of computer science, Acta Cybernet. 2 (1975), 179-181. 
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