Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy

Hungarian mathemaiticain

Date of Birth: 29-Jul-1913

Place of Birth: Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County

Date of Death: 21-Dec-1998

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Béla Szokefalvi-Nagy (29 July 1913, Kolozsvár – 21 December 1998, Szeged) was a Hungarian mathematician.
His father, Gyula Szokefalvi-Nagy was also a famed mathematician.
Szokefalvi-Nagy collaborated with Alfréd Haar and Frigyes Riesz, founders of the Szegedian school of mathematics.
He contributed to the theory of Fourier series and approximation theory.
His most important achievements were made in functional analysis, especially, in the theory of Hilbert space operators.
He was editor-in-chief of the Zentralblatt für Mathematik, the Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum, and the Analysis Mathematica.
He was awarded the Lomonosov Medal in 1979: the Béla Szokefalvi-Nagy Medal honoring his memory is awarded yearly by Bolyai Institute.