1. Master’s program in mathematics
Eötvös University
Budapest

2. About Eötvös University
Established in 1635.
It is the oldest among still existing universities
in Hungary.
Number of students:
appr
It is the largest university in Hungary.

3. Structure of the university
8 faculties: Faculty of Education and Psychology Faculty of Humanities Faculty of Informatics Faculty of Law and Political Sciences Faculty of Primary and Pre-school Education Faculty of Science Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Special Education

4. Faculty buildings

5. University Library founded in 1561

6. Botanical Garden established in 1771

7. Nobel Prize laureates Fülöp Lénárd 1905 Physics György Hevesy 1943
Chemistry
Albert Szentgyörgyi
1937
Medicine
György Békésy
1961
Medicine
János Harsányi
1994 Economics

8. Mathematical tradition
Frigyes Riesz
( )
functional analysis
Lipót Fejér
( )
Fourier-analysis
John von Neumann
( )
mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics
Pál Turán
( )
number theory
and many others…
Pál Erdős
( )
number theory, combinatorics…

9. Mathematical tradition 2
László Lovász
combinatorics
Wolf prize, Kyoto prize
Endre Szemerédi
combinatorics
Abel prize
László Babai
combinatorics
Gödel prize
Miklós Laczkovich
analysis
Ostrowski prize
and many others…

10. Mathematical tradition 3
IMO hall of fame (among the top 90)
Studied at Eötvös Univ. Teaches at Eötvös Univ.
József Pelikán yes yes
László Lovász yes yes
Tamás Terpai yes yes
Béla András Rácz yes
Imre Ruzsa yes
Gyula Lakos yes yes
Géza Kós yes yes
István Tomon yes
Zoltán Gyenes yes
Béla Bollobás yes

11. Mathematical tradition 4
Participation at the
International Mathematics Competition for University Students
Year
Ranking
Number of participating universities
2005 2 71
2006 4 43
2007 1 60
2008
2009 65
2010 7 90
2011 3 77
2012 68
2013 5 72

12. Mathematical tradition 5
Winners of major international prizes
in 2012:
Éva Tardos Gödel prize
(for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science)
László Lovász, Balázs Szegedy - Fulkerson prize
(for outstanding papers in discrete mathematics)
András Máthé Banach prize
(for a doctoral dissertation in mathematics)
Endre Szemerédi Abel prize
(for outstanding scientific work in mathematics)
Katalin Marton Shannon award
(for consistent and profound contributions to information theory)

13. Departments, research areas
Department of Algebra and Number Theory Department of Analysis Department of Applied Analysis and Computational Mathematics Department of Computer Science Department of Geometry Department of Operations Research Department of Probability Theory and Statistics Mathematics Teaching and Education Centre

14. Master’s program in mathematics
Usually 2 years
100 credits (courses) + 20 credits (thesis)
Courses in:
Algebra
Analysis
Discrete mathematics
Geometry
Number theory
Operations research
Stochastics
On request, all courses are offered (also) in English.

15. Structure of the program
Basic courses (20 credits)
Core courses (30 credits in 4 subject areas)
Special courses (44 credits in 3 subject areas)
Free courses (6 credits)
Thesis (20 credits)
Courses are offered in the form of lectures and problem sessions, sometimes as reading courses.

16. Titles of some recent MSc diploma works
Ranks on the Baire class α functions (real analysis)
Galois representations (algebra)
Symmetric submodular functions and their applications (combinatorial optimization)
Integral Geometric Formulae (geometry)
Classification of High-Dimensional Simply-Connected Manifolds (differential topology)
Elliptic curves (algebraic number theory)
Model Theoretic Spectrum Functions and Algebraic Logic (algebraic logic)
Integer Carathéodory property for the bases of a matroid (combinatorics)
Fractional order Sobolev spaces (functional analysis)
Routing Problems (operations research)

17. Summer school, June-July 2013

18. Application deadline:
October 31 for beginning in February
May 31 for
beginning in September