Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-22dnz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-26T23:00:00.106Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Lajos Takács - an appreciation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Extract

Lajos Takács was born in Maglód, Hungary, on 21 August 1924. It was in this small town, 16 miles from Budapest, that he attended elementary school. He showed an early fascination with numbers, and worked on personal projects such as predicting the weight of the apricot harvest from 12 trees in the garden of the family home, by counting the buds on one tree in the spring.

Type
Other
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1994 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)