Gyula Farkas (natural scientist)

Gyula Farkas (natural scientist)

Farkas Gyula, or Julius Farkas (March 28, 1847, Sárosd, Fejér megye - December 27, 1930, Pestszentlőrinc) was a Jewish Hungarian mathematician and physicist.

He attended the gymnasium at Győr (Raab), and studied law and philosophy at Budapest. After teaching in a secondary school at Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg), Farkas became in succession principal of the normal school at Pápa, privat-docent (1881) of mathematics at the University of Budapest, and professor of physics (1888) at 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

See also

* Farkas' lemma

External links

*
* [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Farkas.html Farkas bio (English)]


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