Professor Antal Fekete
Antal E. Fekete, Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, was born in Budapest, Hungary, in
1932. He graduated from the Loránt Eötvös University of Budapest in mathematics in 1955. He left
Hungary in the wake of the 1956 anti-Communist uprising that was brutally put down by the
occupying Soviet troops. He immigrated to Canada in the following year and was appointed Assistant
Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1958. In 1993, after 35 years’ of service he
retired with the rank of Full Professor. During this period he also had tours of duty as visiting
professor at Columbia University in the City of New York (1961), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
(1964), Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia (1970), Princeton University, Princeton, New
Jersey (1974). Since 2005 he has been Professor at Large of Intermountain Institute for Science and
Applied Mathematics (IISAM), Missoula, Montana.
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Filmed by Rudy Fritsch from Canada, with the help of Martha Schoon from the USA.
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Lecture given in November 2010 in Auckland, New Zealand
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