Gyula Strommer (8 May 1920 – 28 August 1995) was a Hungarian mathematician and astronomer. He discovered an asteroid, 1537 Transylvania, on 27 August 1940. This was his first scientific success. From 1942, he was a teaching assistant at the Descriptive Geometry Department of the

Technical University of Budapest The Budapest University of Technology and Economics ( or in short ), official abbreviation BME, is a public research university located in Budapest, Hungary. It is the most significant university of technology in the country and is considered t ...

. In 1952, he became the head of the Descriptive Geometry Department. In 1972, he was appointed a university professor. Between 1981 and 1987, he was the dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. His research topics: the foundations of geometry, Bolyai-Lobachevsky geometry.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Strommer, Gyula 1920 births 1995 deaths People from Aiud 20th-century Hungarian mathematicians 20th-century Hungarian astronomers Discoverers of minor planets Geometers