Gyula Farkas (natural scientist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gyula Farkas (natural scientist)

Hungarian mathematician and physicist

Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1847

Place of Birth: Sárosd, Fejér County, Hungary

Date of Death: 27-Dec-1930

Profession: physicist, mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Farkas Gyula, or Julius Farkas (March 28, 1847 – December 27, 1930) was a Hungarian mathematician and physicist. He attended the gymnasium at Gyor (Raab), and studied law and physics at Pest.
After teaching in a secondary school at Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg), Farkas became in succession principal of the normal school at Pápa, privat-docent (1881) of mathematics at the University of Budapest, and professor of physics (1888) at Franz Joseph University of Kolozsvár (Klausenburg).
He worked here up to 1915, when he retired and moved to Budapest. The Hungarian Academy of Science elected him corresponding member May 6, 1898.
He made a contribution to linear algebra with Farkas' lemma, which is named after him for his derivation of it.