
Tibor Szele (21 June 1918 – 5 April 1955)
Hungarian mathematician
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, working in
combinatorics
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and
abstract algebra
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.
Szele was born in
Debrecen. After graduating at the
Debrecen University, he became a researcher at the
Szeged University in 1946, then he went back at the Debrecen University in 1948 where he became full professor in 1952. He worked especially in the theory of
Abelian groups and
ring theory. He generalized
Hajós's theorem. He founded the Hungarian school of algebra. Tibor Szele received the
Kossuth Prize in 1952. He died in
Szeged.
References
A panorama of Hungarian Mathematics in the Twentieth Century p. 601.
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Algebraists
Combinatorialists
Probability theorists
1918 births
1955 deaths
University of Debrecen alumni
Academic staff of the University of Debrecen
20th-century Hungarian mathematicians