István Juhász (born 2 July 1943, Budapest) is a Hungarian mathematician, working in

set theory Set theory is the branch of mathematical logic that studies Set (mathematics), sets, which can be informally described as collections of objects. Although objects of any kind can be collected into a set, set theory – as a branch of mathema ...

. He works at the Rényi Mathematical Institute of the

Hungarian Academy of Sciences The Hungarian Academy of Sciences ( , MTA) is Hungary’s foremost and most prestigious learned society. Its headquarters are located along the banks of the Danube in Budapest, between Széchenyi rakpart and Akadémia utca. The Academy's primar ...

Career

Juhász graduated from Eötvös University, Budapest in 1966 and worked there until 1974 when he moved to the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the

, where he is currently a professor emeritus. Juhász obtained a DSc degree in 1977 from the Academy and he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2007). He was the president of the European Set Theory Society for the period 2015–2018. He is a member of the editorial board of the journals ''Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum'' and '' Topology and its Applications''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Juhasz, Istvan 20th-century Hungarian mathematicians 21st-century Hungarian mathematicians 1943 births Living people Eötvös Loránd University alumni