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György Alexits

Hungarian mathematician (1899–1978)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 6, 2024
Entity authorityQ622374 ↗
Source-derived summary

György Alexits (5 January 1899 - 14 October 1978), born in Budapest, was a Hungarian mathematician, and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Alexits is the author of Konvergenzprobleme der Orthogonalreihen (1960), translated as Convergence Problems of Orthogonal Series (Pergamon, 1961).

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“György Alexits” enters the record as hungarian mathematician (1899–1978). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what György, Alexits and Hungarian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1899, 1978, 1960, 1961—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1899-01-05. Its strongest next move is a source search built around György, Alexits and Hungarian.
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“György Alexits” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, György, Alexits and Hungarian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 6, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q622374. VIAF identifies the subject as 61619623. The Library of Congress control number is n83828002. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1899, 1978, 1960 and 1961.

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This entry incorporates text from “György Alexits” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.