Menyhért Palágyi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Menyhért Palágyi

Hungarian mathematician, philosopher, physicist

Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1859

Place of Birth: Paks, Tolna County, Hungary

Date of Death: 14-Jul-1924

Profession: physicist, mathematician, philosopher

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Menyhért Palágyi, in German Melchior or Meinhert Palagyi (16 December 1859 in Paks, Hungary – 14 July 1924 in Darmstadt, Germany) was a Hungarian philosopher, mathematician, and physicist of Jewish descent (his original name was Silberstein).
He was the elder brother of the Hungarian poet Ludwig Palágyi. Palágyi presented new theory of space and time (1901), which had a certain similarity with the space-time formalism of Henri Poincaré and Hermann Minkowski in the context of special relativity theory (e.g.
Palagyi used the imaginary time coordinate it as the fourth dimension of "space-time").
However, his philosophy had little in common with the physics of relativity theory.
Therefore, in 1914 he expressed his criticism of the theories of Albert Einstein and Hermann Minkowski.
However, in a subsequent paper Max Born showed that Palagyi's criticism was misguided. Palagyi's concept of vital fantasy makes him an ancestor of cybernetic anthropology.
His theory of virtual movement forms the basis for different movement-therapeutic concepts.
Palágyi also engaged in controversy with Edmund Husserl.