Antal Iványi

Between 1965 and 1970, he was an assistant professor at the University of Chemical Industry of Veszprém (VVE); in 1969, he completed the mathematics teaching program at ELTE via correspondence. From 1970 to 1971, he was a scientific associate at the Computer Science Center (SZK) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and from 1971, he was an assistant professor at the Department of Numerical and Machine Mathematics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences (TTK) of ELTE.

His interest turned to computers and their applications early on. Initially, he taught the subjects of Computer Mathematics, Programming of Digital Electronic Computers and Chemical Applications of ALGOL Programming to the mathematics students of ELTE. From 1972, he joined the then-launched training program for programming mathematicians by teaching the subjects of: Non-numerical applications of computers, Operating systems, and later Parallel algorithms.

He obtained his doctorate in 1972. Between 1972 and 1975, he completed his postgraduate studies at the Department of Computer Systems of Moscow State University, obtaining the title of Candidate of Mathematical Sciences. Between 1975-1983, he was an associate professor at the Department of Numerical and Computer Mathematics of the ELTE Faculty of Computer Science. Between 1983-1984, he taught and researched at Moscow State University, obtaining the title of Doctor of Mathematics and Computer Sciences (which he naturalized).

In 1984, he taught and researched as a university professor at the Department of General Computer Science of the ELTE Faculty of Computer Science, and then from 2003 at the Department of Computer Algebra of the ELTE Faculty of Informatics. His main research areas are: analysis of algorithms, computer modeling, number theory.

He was an outstanding researcher, educator, educational organizer, book author, editor and translator. The works he wrote and edited, especially the volumes of Algorithms, significantly contributed to the development of Hungarian computer science education. He was an energetic colleague, always open to new educational methods and scientific results, and blessed with an excellent organizational sense, for whose work the NJSZT awarded him the Neumann Prize in 2005.