Gyula Farkas (natural scientist)
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Farkas Gyula, or Julius Farkas (March 28, 1847, Sárosd, Fejér megye - December 27, 1930, Pestszentlőrinc) was a Jewish Hungarian mathematician and physicist.
He attended the gymnasium at Győr (Raab), and studied law and philosophy at Budapest. After teaching in a secondary school at Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg), Farkas became in succession principal of the normal school at Pápa, privat-docent (1881) of mathematics at the University of Budapest, and professor of physics (1888) at Klausenburg. The Hungarian Academy of Science elected him corresponding member May 6, 1898.
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His principal writings are embodied in the reports of the Academy of Science of Paris (1878-1884):
- the "Archiv der Mathematik und Physik";
- the "Journal des Mathematiques";
His separately published works are:
- "Die Diatomische Dur-Scale", Budapest, 1870; ()
- "Termeszettan Elemei" (Elements of Physics), ib. 1872.
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[edit] Bibliography of Jewish Encyclopedia
- Pallas Nagy Lexicon, vi.;
- Horváth Könyvészete, 1881.
- This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
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