Memories on Shadows and Shadows of Memories

Gyula O. H. Katona ()
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Gyula O. H. Katona: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Rényi Institute, Mathematical Institute

A chapter in The Mathematics of Paul Erdős II, 2013, pp 195-198 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract I am one of the very few mathematicians who knew Paul’s aunt Irma before I knew him. She and my grandmother were neighbors during World War II. Aunt Irma was one of the few Jews in Budapest who survived the holocaust. This is how I met her since I was raised from this time by my grandmother and my aunt. Aunt Irma must have had good memories about my grandmother since they kept a good relationship, she regularly visited my grandmother even after her move to another place. She learned about my interest in mathematics and suggested I meet her nephew Pali who happened to be a mathematician. “Of course” I had never heard of him, but I was very glad to meet an old “real mathematician”. He was a very respectful old man (46!). I immediately understood that I was seeing an extraordinary personality.

Keywords: Extraordinary Personality; Realistic Mathematics; Grandmother; German Democratic Republic Times; Combinatorial World (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7254-4_14

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