András Prékopa

András Prékopa (born September 11, 1929 in Nyíregyháza) is a Hungarian mathematician, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He received his university diploma as teacher of mathematics and physics from the University of Debrecen in 1952. In 1952 he became a Ph.D student (aspirant) at the Institute for Applied Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and defended his thesis, entitled “On Stochastic Set Functions”, in 1956. His advisor was Alfréd Rényi. Between 1956-68 he was first assistant, later associate professor at the Department of Probability Theory of the L. Eötvös University. In 1968 he became full professor at the Department of Mathematics of the Technical University of Budapest, where he remained until...