Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy
Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy (29 July 1913,
Kolozsvár – 21 December 1998,
Szeged) was a
Hungarian mathematician. His father,
Gyula Szőkefalvi-Nagy was also a famed mathematician. Szőkefalvi-Nagy collaborated with
Alfréd Haar and
Frigyes Riesz, founders of the Szegedian school of mathematics. He contributed to the theory of
Fourier series and
approximation theory. His most important achievements were made in
functional analysis, especially, in the theory of
Hilbert space operators. He was editor-in-chief of the ''
Zentralblatt für Mathematik'', the ''
Acta Scientiarum Mathematicarum'', and the ''
Analysis Mathematica''. He was awarded the
Kossuth Prize in 1953, along with his co-author F. Riesz, for his book ''Leçons d'analyse fonctionnelle.'' He was awarded the
Lomonosov Medal in 1979. The Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy Medal honoring his memory is awarded yearly by
Bolyai Institute.
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