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Rozsa Peter

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Rozsa Peter · Science & Medicine

What

Founder of recursive function theory

When

1905, Budapest, Hungary — 1977, Budapest, Hungary

Where

Hungary

Biography

Rozsa Peter is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Founder of recursive function theory

How & why

Péter was a Hungarian Jewish mathematician regarded as the founder of recursive function theory as an independent field, and an influential expositor of computability and mathematics education. She survived the Budapest ghetto during the Holocaust. She was born into a Jewish family in Budapest.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Founder of recursive function theory

1905

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics