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Sved
Sved or SVED may refer to: * Márta Svéd (died 2005), Hungarian–Australian mathematician * Peter Sved, Australian filmmaker, director of Crawlspace (2004 film) *SVED, the ICAO airport code for El Dorado Airport (Venezuela) {{dab, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Márta Svéd
Márta Svéd (1910 – 30 September 2005) was a Hungarian mathematician who was a teacher of mathematics at the University of Adelaide after moving to Australia in the 1930s. She was 75 years old when she completed her PhD in 1985. She wrote the textbook ''Journey into Geometries'' (1991), and won the BH Neumann Award in 1994 for her contributions to mathematics learning in Australia. Early life Márta Svéd was in the same high school class in Budapest as Esther Klein. She became interested in mathematics through ''Középiskolai Matematikai Lapok'' (''KöMaL''), a Hungarian magazine for high school mathematicians, and through its problem-solving column, where Paul Erdős was also a regular solver. She took third place in her year's offering of the Hungarian national high school mathematics competition, ahead of Pál Turán but behind her future husband, civil engineer George Svéd. Due to the restrictions placed on Jews in Hungary in the late 1920s, only two students from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crawlspace (2004 Film)
''Crawlspace'' is a 2004 animated short film, written, directed and animated by Peter Sved as his graduation piece at The Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney. Plot A strange man stuck in a desert wakes from his coma and goes in search of water. He discovers a lush green forest, alive with plants and animals the likes of which he could never have dreamt of. He finds a watersnake (a bizarre creature that is a snake with a human hand as its head; is made of a semi-transparent fluid; has the ability to float in air) that has been captured by a giant plant that resembles a venus flytrap, and rescues the strange creature from its clutches. In return, the creature reveals to him the secret place in the forest where water can be found. Festival screenings and awards Festivals *Hiroshima International Animation Festival 2004, Japan (Winner – Stars of Students Award) *ComGraph 2004: Asia-Pacific Digital Art & Animation Competition, Singapore (Winner – Merit Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Sved
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