Preface A collection of papers to commemorate the Cornelius Lanczos centennial

✍ Scribed by E.L. Ortiz; T.J. Rivlin

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 135 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0898-1221
• DOI: 10.1016/s0898-1221(96)00214-3

✦ Synopsis

Cornelius Lanczos was born in S~kesfeh~rv£r, Hungary, on February 2, 1893. His father was a Jewish lawyer whose family name was LSwy; he changed his children's name to LAnczos in the early 1900's following a drive for Hungarization prevalent at the time. Lanczos was educated at the Cistercian Catholic secondary school of his native town and later attended courses at the University of Budapest. Among his teachers were the physicist Baron Roland von EStv6s and the mathematician Leopold Fej~r. He graduated in 1915. For employment he moved to the Technical University of Budapest, where modern theoretical physics was more actively discussed. His doctoral dissertation was supervised by Rudolf Ortvay; it dealt with the quaternion formulation of Maxwell's equations and the relativistic motion of the electron. A doctorate was granted to him in 1921.