The Rényi Institute is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a series of lectures. The ceremony on October 28 in the main hall of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences will be opened by two mathematicians who have been awarded the Fields Medal – Wendelin Werner (University of Cambridge) and Alessio Figalli (ETH Zurich) . In the afternoon, following welcoming remarks by Tamás Freund, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Balázs Gulyás, President of HUN-REN, current and former directors and leading researchers of the Rényi Institute of Mathematics will present the institute's past, its achievements, and discuss the challenges of the future.
The institute was founded in 1950 under the name Applied Mathematics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, with the then 29-year-old Alfréd Rényi as its director. The development of applied mathematics and the rapid utilization of its results for the benefit of society were natural requirements of post-war reconstruction. In 1958, the institute moved to its current location on Reáltanoda Street.
In the 1960s, giants of Hungarian and universal mathematics worked within the walls of the institute, such as Pál Erdős, also known as the traveling ambassador of mathematics, the later director László Fejes Tóth, and Pál Turán and his wife, Vera T. Sós, who played a key role in educating the next generation of mathematicians. Of course, Alfréd Rényi also worked here, contributing significantly to the development of probability theory, graph theory, and number theory in Hungary.
From the outset, the institute's main mission has been to conduct mathematical research at the highest level. Through the scientific work carried out here, the Rényi Institute plays a central and decisive role in Hungarian and international mathematics.
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