Mathematician:Rózsa Péter

Mathematician

Hungarian mathematician best known for her work in recursion theory.

Nationality

Hungarian

History

• Born: 17 February 1905 in Budapest, Hungary
• Died: 16 February 1977 in Budapest, Hungary

Theorems and Definitions

• Ackermann-Péter Function (with Wilhelm Friedrich Ackermann)

Definitions of concepts named for Rózsa Péter can be found here.

Publications

• 1936: Über rekursive Funktionen der zweite Stufe
• 1951: Rekursive Funtionen
• 1959: Über die Verallgemeinerung der Theorie der rekursiven Funktionen für abstrakte Mengen geeigneter Struktur als Definitionsbereiche
• 1976: Recursive Functions in Computer Theory

Also known as

Rózsa Péter started life as Rózsa Politzer.

She changed her name to the Hungarian version Péter in around $1932$.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Rózsa Péter": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive