Nationality Hungarian Role Mathematician | Name Gyula Farkas Known for Farkas' lemma Fields Mathematics, Physics | |
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Born March 28, 1847
Sarosd, Fejer County ( 1847-03-28 ) Died December 27, 1930, 18th district of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary | ||
Alma mater Eotvos Lorand University | ||
Farkas Gyula, or Julius Farkas (March 28, 1847 – December 27, 1930) was a Hungarian mathematician and physicist.
He attended the gymnasium at Győr (Raab), and studied law and physics at Pest. 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 Franz Joseph University of Kolozsvár (Cluj-Napoca, Klausenburg). He worked here up to 1915, when he retired and moved to Budapest.
The Hungarian Academy of Science elected him corresponding member May 6, 1898. He has made contribution to linear algebra with Farkas' lemma, which is named after him for his derivation of it.
Literary works
His principal writings are embodied in the reports of the Academy of Science of Paris (1878–1884)
His separately published works are: