_________________________________________________________________ Professor Antal Fekete Antal E. Fekete, Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1932. He graduated from the Loránt Eötvös University of Budapest in mathematics in 1955. He left Hungary in the wake of the 1956 anti-Communist uprising that was brutally put down by the occupying Soviet troops. He immigrated to Canada in the following year and was appointed Assistant Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1958. In 1993, after 35 years’ of service he retired with the rank of Full Professor. During this period he also had tours of duty as visiting professor at Columbia University in the City of New York (1961), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (1964), Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia (1970), Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (1974). Since 2005 he has been Professor at Large of Intermountain Institute for Science and Applied Mathematics (IISAM), Missoula, Montana. _________________________________________________________________ Filmed by Rudy Fritsch from Canada, with the help of Martha Schoon from the USA. _________________________________________________________________ Lecture given in 2009, Canberra _________________________________________________________________ If you like, you can show your appreciation by checking out our sponsor’s website and their services for safe deposit boxes in Switzerland https://swissgoldsafe.ch/en/safe-depo.... Without them the publication of the video would not have been possible. |
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