Frigyes Mihály Hack

After graduating from university, he was the professional secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Social and Natural Sciences (TTIT) in Szombathely and the head of the demonstration observatory. Between 1956 and 1965, he was a teacher at the Újpest Kálmán Grammar School and the head of the observatory. From 1963, he was a part-time teaching assistant at the Department of Geometry at ELTE TTK.

Between 1965 and 1974, he was the head teacher of mathematics at the Apáczai-Csere János Practical School of ELTE. During this period, the first edition of the “Four-digit Function Tables - Mathematical Relationships” compiled by him, which is still used in secondary schools today, was published (in 1967), which he supplemented with a chapter on Informatics in 1998. Between 1970 and 1974, he led a computer science professional group supported by the Computer Science Coordination Institute (SzKI), and prepared the installation of a machine donated to the school by the Central Physics Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (KFKI). He led computer science further training courses for secondary school teachers.

Between 1974 and 1997, he was a lecturer at the Department of Numerical and Computer Mathematics at ELTE, participating in the IT training of programmers and teachers. In the meantime, he also continued his own education: in 1975 he obtained a university doctorate and in 1995 a PhD degree at ELTE TTK. The subjects taught in the training of programmer/program designer mathematicians were: Fundamentals of Computer Science and Cybernetics, Introduction to Programming, Information Technology Knowledge. He is the (co-)author of several university notes. Between 2002 and 2005, he gave a lecture at ELTE IK on the geometric foundations of 3D graphics.

He has been a member of the AAVSO (American Association of Variable Stars' Observers) since 1950. In 1952, he was a founding member of the Hungarian Society for the Promotion of Natural Sciences (TTIT), which was reorganized after the war. He has been a member of the National Geographic Society since 1978, and of the Hungarian Society of Astronomy since 1988.