Peter Szüsz

Peter Szüsz (11 November 1924 – 16 February 2008)[1] was a Serbian-Hungarian-American mathematician known[2] for his proof (1961) of the Gauss-Kuzmin Theorem, his work in probabilistic number theory, and his book with Andrew M. Rockett on Continued Fractions.

[3][4] Born in Novi Sad, Serbia, he grew up in Budapest, Hungary, attending the Eötvös József Gimnázium and beginning his life-long passions for chess,[5] music,[6] and mathematics.

In 1944 he was drafted into forced labour service and sent to the Heidenau Lager at the copper mines near Bor,[7][8][9][10] but escaped from the Nazi SS death march to Cservenka and was hidden by the Gyulai family near Kula until the end of the war.

[11] After studying first electrical engineering and then mathematics at the University of Budapest, he became a Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Science from 1950 to 1965, received his Ph.D. as a student of Pál Turán in 1951,[12] and became a Doctor of Science at the Academy in 1962.

He fled communist Hungary in 1965, became a Full Professor of Mathematics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (now Stony Brook University) in 1966 and retired in 1994.