He graduated at the University of Budapest as a student of Eötvös József Collegium.
He started his career as a trainee at the Institute of Medical Physics at the University of Debrecen.
He read the Latin-language classics in the original, spoke German, French, and Italian well, and during his captivity he also mastered Russian, so his skills were utilised as an interpreter during the war.
[1] He was an aspirant to the candidate's degree at the Mathematical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, a student of Alfréd Rényi’s.
His main research interests were probability, mathematical statistics, and their applications; his results on numerical methods are also remarkable.