Pál Rózsa

In 1949, he was a teaching assistant at the Institute of Mathematics led by Samu Borbély at the Technical University of Heavy Industry (NME) in Miskolc.

In 1950, he was appointed to the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Public Education as a lecturer in basic subjects at technical universities.

Between 1951 and 1955, he was a post-graduate student of Jenő Egerváry at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Applied Mathematics, later a research associate and then a senior fellow. In 1956, he defended his post-graduate dissertation; in 1960, he became a doctor of philosophy at ELTE.
Between 1960 and 1963, he succeeded Egerváry as head of the Matrix Theory and Applications Group. He was an internationally renowned researcher in matrix theory and numerical methods.

Between 1963 and 1968, he headed the Mathematics Department of the Central Research Institute of Physics (KFKI) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

In 1968, he was appointed as a university professor and head of the Department of Mathematics of the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Budapest University of Technology (BME). In 1978, he transferred to the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, where he headed the Department of Mathematics between 1982 and 1990. Between 1974 and 1986, he was the chairman of the BME Public Education Committee.

He received his doctorate from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1985. After his retirement in 1995, he became an emeritus professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Theory of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Budapest University of Technology.

He was the initiator of the "Numerical Methods" international conference series of the Bolyai János Mathematical Society.

He is referred to as one of the mentors of the technical application of domestic computers.

His main awards: Silver Medal of Masaryk University in Brno (1979); Silver Degree of the Order of Merit for Labor (1985); Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic (1995); Jenő Egerváry Memorial Plaque (Hungarian Operations Research Society, 2005); "Pro Facultate" award (posthumous, BME Department of Computer Science and Information Theory).