About Cornelius Lanczos
Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos (Hungarian: Lánczos Kornél, pronounced [ˈlaːnt͡soʃ ˈkorneːl]; born as Kornél Lőwy, until 1906: Löwy (Lőwy) Kornél; February 2, 1893 – June 25, 1974) was a Hungarian, American, and later Irish mathematician and physicist. According to György Marx he was one of the Martians, a group of Hungarian scientific luminaries who immigrated to the United States to escape national socialism. He was remembered by his colleagues as an innovative scholar and an excellent educator. == Early life and education == He was born in Székesfehérvár, Fejér County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary to Károly Lőwy and Adél Hahn. He grew up in relative comfort and attended a Catholic Gymnasium (high school). Between 1911 and 1916, he studied at the University of Budapest, where one of his professors in physics was Roland Eötvös, whose skills as an experimental physicist impressed him. In mathematics, his notable teacher was Lipót Fejér, then a young mathematician. Lanczos graduated with a teacher's diploma in mathematics and physics. He worked an assistant of Károly Tangl at the Department of Experimental Physics at the Polytechnical University of Budapest from 1916 to 1921. In his doctoral dissertation titled The Relation of Maxwell's Aether Equations to Functional Theory, Lanczos re-wrote Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism in terms of quaternions and applied a relativistic variational principle.
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