Laszlo Megyesi

He began his university studies in Szeged as a mathematics and physics teacher, then in his third year – abandoning the physics major – he enrolled in the applied mathematics (calculator) major started by László Kalmár (so he was a third-year student at the Szeged school). His thesis topic, which he wrote at KFKI, was programmed on the URAL-1 calculator: “Implementation of Schreier expansion of groups on a calculator”.

After graduating from university in 1963, he remained at the university in the Department of Algebra and Number Theory. At the same time, he was the most serious user of the M-3 computer installed in Szeged at the time for a year and a half: he created programs for Professor László Rédei's problem on the topic of gapped polynomials over a finite field (some of which ran on the machine for days).

Candidate of Mathematical Sciences. He was appointed as an associate professor at the Department of Algebra and Number Theory of the Bolyai Institute of the University of Szeged (SZTE) in 1977, and then received the title of honorary university professor. From 1993, he was the head of the Department for ten years; he worked here until 2009, when he retired. His narrower field of activity is number theory and cardinal groups.

He has taught and researched for nearly half a century. We mention two of his books: “Linear Algebra Problems” (1999) and “Introduction to Number Theory” (2005).