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Gyula Strommer | |
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Died | 28 June 1995 | (aged 75)
Citizenship | Hungarian |
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Fields | Mathematics |
Gyula Strommer (8 May 1920 – 28 August 1995) was a Hungarian mathematician and astronomer.[1][2]
He discovered an asteroid, 1537 Transylvania, on 27 August 1940. This was his first scientific success. From 1942, he was a teaching assistant at the Descriptive Geometry Department of the Technical University of Budapest. In 1952, he became the head of the Descriptive Geometry Department. In 1972, he was appointed a university professor. Between 1981 and 1987, he was the dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.
His research topics: the foundations of geometry, Bolyai-Lobachevsky geometry.