József Kürschák, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Hungarian mathematician
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Place of Birth: Buda, Budapest, Hungary
About József Kürschák
- József Kürschák (14 March 1864 – 26 March 1933) was a Hungarian mathematician noted for his work on trigonometry and for his creation of the theory of valuations.
- He proved that every valued field can be embedded into a complete valued field which is algebraically closed.
- In 1918 he proved that the sum of reciprocals of consecutive natural numbers is never an integer.
- Extending Hilbert's argument, he proved that everything that can be constructed using a ruler and a compass, can be constructed by using a ruler and the ability of copying a fixed segment.
- He was elected a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1897.
- He was one of the main organisers of mathematics competitions, for example, Eötvös Loránd mathematics competition.
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