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He was born as Pólya György in Budapest, Austria-Hungary to originally Ashkenazi Jewish parents Anna Deutsch and Jakab Pólya who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1886.
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Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.
`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.
By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.
Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.
Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.
Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??
Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??
In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!
Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.
He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.
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George Pólya ( December 13, 1888 – September 7, 1985, in Hungarian Pólya György ) was a Hungarian Jewish mathematician.
In Budapest he was taught mainly by Fejér, Beke, Kürschák and Bauer and made the acquaintance of his future collaborators George Pólya and Michael Fekete.
This example was used by George Pólya as an example of the subtle errors that can occur in attempts to prove statements by induction.
Graham, prolific mathematician and industrious human being, has won many other prizes over the years ; he was one of the laureates of the prestigious Pólya Prize the first year it was ever awarded, and among the first to win the Euler Medal.
In 2012, Szemerédi was awarded the Abel prize “ for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, and in recognition of the profound and lasting impact of these contributions on additive number theory and ergodic theory ” The Abel prize citation also credited Szemerédi with bringing combinatorics to the centre-stage of mathematics and noted his place in the tradition of Hungarian mathematicians such as George Pólya who emphasized a problem-solving approach to mathematics.
Hitchin was elected as an Honorary Fellow of Oxford's Jesus College in 1998, and the Senior Berwick Prize ( 1990 ), the Sylvester Medal ( 2000 ) and the Pólya Prize ( 2002 ) have been awarded to him in honour of his far-reaching work.
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György Sándor was the soloist in the first performance of the Third Piano Concerto on February 8, 1946.
In 1934, a Hungarian physician, Paul György discovered a substance that was able to cure a skin disease in rats ( dermititis acrodynia ), this substance he named vitamin B < sub > 6 </ sub >.< ref > Paul György ( 1934 ) " Vitamin B < sub > 2 </ sub > and the pellagra-like dermatitis in rats ," Nature, vol.
The critique of the spectacle is a development and application of Karl Marx's concept of fetishism of commodities, reification and alienation., and the way it was reprised by György Lukács in 1923.
He became better known in the 1980s, and was lauded as one of the most significant composers of the century, including György Ligeti.
Mannheim was a precocious scholar and an accepted member of two influential circles, one centered on Oszkár Jászi and interested above all in French and English sociological writings, and one centered on György Lukács, with interests focused on the enthusiasms of German diagnosticians of cultural crisis, notably the novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the writings of the German mystics.
According to Longhurst, the György Lukács led group, " rejected any ' positivist ' or ' mechanist ' understanding of society and was dissatisfied with the existing political arrangements in Hungary.
The composer György Ligeti ( the name Ligeti is a Hungarian equivalent of the German name Auer ) was his great-nephew.
: This article is about the philosopher ; for the politician, who was Minister of Education, see György Lukács ( politician ).
A zealous Calvinist who boasted he had read the Bible twenty-five times, he was not a bigot and had helped the Jesuit György Káldy to translate and print his version of the Scriptures.
He also worked with the Philharmonia Orchestra to record the complete works of György Ligeti for Sony Classical, but unfortunately the project was left unfinished due to lack of funding.
Earlier in his career, however, he was a devoted interpreter of the contemporary music of such composers as Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Olivier Messiaen, Frank Martin, György Ligeti, and Edgard Varèse.
Jenny's work was also followed up by Center for Advanced Visual Studies ( CAVS ) founder György Kepes at MIT.
Paradoxically, his main Communist contact in the Social Democratic Party was a sculptor named György Goldmann.
" Struggle against formalists " was pursued in other countries too: according to György Ligeti, after Khrennikov ’ s official visit to Budapest in 1948, The Miraculous Mandarin by Béla Bartók was removed from the repertoire and paintings by French impressionists and others were removed from display in museums.
During the following Stalinist dictatorship he was discredited and banned by the political propaganda under György Lukács, the leading communist ideologist.
He used extreme cruelty when he was tasked with defeating the peasant rebellion of 1514 led by György Dózsa, who was captured by his cousin Petar Petrović.
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