Rózsa Péter

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The native form of this personal name is Péter Rózsa. This article uses the Western name order.

Rózsa Péter

Rózsa Péter (orig.: Politzer) (17 February 1905 – 16 February 1977) was a Hungarian mathematician. She is best known for her work with recursion theory.

Péter was born in Budapest, Hungary, as Rózsa Politzer (Hungarian: Politzer Rózsa). She attended Eötvös Loránd University, where she received her PhD in 1935. After the passage of the Jewish Laws of 1939 in Hungary, she was forbidden to teach because of her Jewish origin. After the war she published her key work, Recursive Functions.

She taught at Eötvös Loránd University from 1955 until her retirement in 1975. She was a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1973).

works: "Playing with Infinity: Mathematical Explorations and Excursions" New York 2010 (Dover Publications)

References

Albers, Donald J.; Alexanderson, Gerald L.; Reid, Constance, eds. (1990), "Rozsa Peter 1905–1977", More Mathematical People, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, p. 149
"Rózsa Péter", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Rózsa Péter", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
Rózsa Péter, Founder of Recursive Function Theory, Women in Science: A Selection of 16 Contributors, San Diego Supercomputer Center, 1997, accessed 2013-05-06.

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Name	Péter, Rózsa
Alternative names	Politzer, Rózsa
Short description	mathematician
Date of birth	1905
Place of birth
Date of death	1977
Place of death

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