Lajos Szilassi

Lajos Szilassi (born 1942 in Szentes, Hungary) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Szeged who worked in projective and non-Euclidean geometry, applying his research to computer generated solutions of geometric problems.

[1] Szilassi obtained his high school diploma in 1966 at the Bolyai Institute of the József Attila University, majoring in mathematical representation geometry.

He had been teaching for six years in a secondary school, then he joined the Department of Mathematics at Gyula Juhász Teacher Training College.

He then received his Doctor rerum naturalium degree at the University of Szeged (1978) under László Lovász with the dissertation Polyhedra bounded by pairwise adjacent faces.

[7] On April 29, 2002 the French government installed a sculpture of the "Szilassi-Polyhedron" in the town of Beaumont-de-Lomagne, the birthplace of Fermat, on the 400th anniversary of his birth.