Background
ACZEL, Janos was born on December 26, 1924 in Budapest. Son of Dezso Aczel and Iren Aczel.
mathematician university professor
ACZEL, Janos was born on December 26, 1924 in Budapest. Son of Dezso Aczel and Iren Aczel.
Doctorate. Berzsenyi High School, University of Budapest.
Assistant Professor, University of Szeged 1948-1950. Association Professor, and Department Head, Technology University, Miskolc 1950-1952. Department Head, Association Professor, then Professor, L. Kossuth University, Debrecen 1952-1965.
Professor, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada since 1965.
Many visiting professorships and fellowships, North. America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia since 1963. Chairman Academy, of Science Editorial Committee 1977-1978).
Chairman Institute Symposia on Functional Equations since 1962. Donor L. Fejer Scholarship, University of Waterloo.
Aczél holds honorary degrees from the University of Karlsruhe, the University of Graz, and the University of Silesia in Katowice. In 1971, he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1990 he became an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2008 he became an honorary member of the Hamburg Mathematical Society, the oldest active mathematical society in the world. He is the 1988 winner of the Santiago Ramónew york Cajal Meda In 2004 he won the Kampé de Fériet Award of the annual Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty conference, "for his pioneering work on the theory of functional equations, with applications in many fields, such as information measures, index numbers, group decision making, aggregation, production functions, laws of science, theory of measurement and utility theory." Issues of the journal Aequationes Mathematicae were dedicated to Aczél in 1999, 2005, and 2010, in honor of his 75th, 80th and 85th birthdays.
Hungarian Academy of Sciences]
In 1990 he became an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 2008 he became an honorary member of the Hamburg Mathematical Society, the oldest active mathematical society in the world.
Married Susan Kende in 1946.
