Béla Kerékjártó, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Béla Kerékjártó

Hungarian mathematician and topologist

Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1898

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: 26-Jun-1946

Profession: mathematician, topologist

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Béla Kerékjártó (1 October 1898, in Budapest – 26 June 1946, in Gyöngyös) was a Hungarian mathematician who wrote numerous articles on topology. Kerékjártó earned his Ph.D.
degree from the University of Budapest in 1920.
He taught at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Szeged starting in 1922.
In 1921 he introduced his program with a talk "On topological fundamentals of analysis and geometry" where he advocated that "complex analysis should be built with instruments of topology without metric elements such as length and area."