August 29, 2005
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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005
12:30:40 -0400
From: Alf van der Poorten AM
Subject: Vale George Szekeres and
Esther Klein SzekeresMembers of the Number Theory List will be sad to learn that George
and Esther Szekeres both died this morning. George, 94, had been
quite ill for the last 2-3 days, barely conscious, and died first at 06:30.
Esther, 95, died a half hour later.Both George Szekeres and Esther Klein will be recalled by number
theorists as members of the group of young Hungarian mathematicians of
the 1930s including Turan and Erdos. George and Esther’s coming to
Australia in the late 40s played an important role in the invigoration
of Australian Mathematics. George was also an expert in group theory
and relativity; he was my PhD supervisor.Emeritus Professor
Alf van der Poorten AM
Centre for Number Theory Research
1 Bimbil Place, Killara NSWRelated material:AVE
“Hello! Kinch here. Put me on to Edenville. Aleph, alpha: nought, nought, one.” “A very short space of time through very short times of space….
Am I walking into eternity along Sandymount strand?”— James Joyce, Ulysses, Proteus chapter
A very short space of time through very short times of space….
“It is demonstrated that space-time should possess a discrete structure on
Planck scales.”— Peter Szekeres, abstract of Discrete Space-Time
Peter Szekeres is the son of George and Esther Szekeres.
ATQUE“At present, such relationships can at best be heuristically
described in terms that invoke some notion of an ‘intelligent user
standing outside the system.’”– Gian-Carlo Rota in Indiscrete Thoughts, p. 152
