About Mór Réthy
Lived 1846 – 1925 (aged 78). Mór Réthy was a Hungarian mathematician, physicist, scientist, university teacher, dean and editor.
Mór Réthy (or Moritz Réthy) (1846–1925) was a Hungarian mathematician.
Life and work Réthy attended the Technical Universities of Vienna and Budapest; he graduated in Budapest in 1870. After two years teaching in the Modern Technical School of Körmöcbánya, he obtained a grant to follow huis studies in Göttingen and Heidelberg, where he studied under Clebsch, Kirchhoff, Schering and Königsberger, obtaining his doctoral degree in Heidelberg in 1874.
He spread the work of the Bolyai father and son editing the Tentamen in two volumes in 1897 and 1904 and writing papers about it.
Réthy is remembered by his work on theoretical mechanics published mainly in Hungarian or German but translated to English in many cases.
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Who was Mór Réthy?
Hungarian mathematician (1846–1925)
When was Mór Réthy born?
Mór Réthy was born on 9 November 1846 in Nagykőrös.
When did Mór Réthy die?
Mór Réthy died on 16 October 1925 in Budapest.
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Mór Réthy was a mathematician, physicist, scientist, university teacher, dean and editor.
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Mór Réthy was Hungarian.
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