Editorial

Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, Apr 2009

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Editorial

- Professor Mikl´os Farkas was born on June 15, 1932 in Budapest, Hungary. He had all his school and higher education in Budapest. He received an M.Sc degree in Applied Mathematics from E¨otvo¨s L´ora´nd University in 1955 and a Ph.D degree from the Hungarian National Academy of Sciences in 1957 for his contributions to differential geometry. Sixteen years later, the Academy of Sciences conferred D.Sc on Professor Farkas for his thesis titled Periodic Perturbations of Autonomous Systems. Professor Farkas joined the Department of Mathematics of the Budapest University of Technology as an Assistant Professor in 1957 and served as a Professor in the period 1967–2002. In recognition of his distinguished services that spanned over 45 years, the university honored Professor Farkas by appointing him as a Professor Emeritus in 2002. He served the Mathematical Institute until his death in 2007. He held visiting positions at universities in Australia, Austria, Canada, Columbia, Iraq, Nigeria and Venezuela, with the visits ranging from one to two years. Besides, he delivered lectures at various national and international scientific meetings and conferences held in Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, Germany, Greece, India, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, the Netherlands, UK, Ukraine, USA, Venezuela and Vietnam. He was a member of several leading mathematical societies in the world. The geometric-qualitative theory of differential equations began receiving much attention in the 1960’s, and this fascinated Professor Farkas. He had introduced the concept of zip bifurcation in biological models (one of his most notable and significant contributions to this subject) and this phenomenon is gaining increasing significance in recent years. He had published more than seventy research papers in various leading international journals and about fifty text books, monographs, edited books including philosophical and pedagogical articles. In particular, the books Periodic Motions (Springer, 1994) and Dynamic Models in Biology (Academic Press, 2001) have been very popular among contemporary researchers. In 2001, he was awarded the prestigious Albert Szent-Gy¨orgyi Prize. He was the first mathematician in Hungary to teach structural stability, bifurcations and catastrophe theory. He had supervised fifteen Ph.D theses and dissertations of several M.Sc students. He was a member of the Editorial Boards of leading international journals, such as, Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems (Springer, 2004–07), Nonlinear Analysis – Real World Applications (Elsevier, 2003–07), Miskolc Mathematical Notes (Applied Mathematics, Hungary) and the Electronic Journal of Qualitative Theory of Differential Equations (Hungary). After achieving several distinctions with an illustrious career as a leading academician, Professor Farkas succumbed to his illness, and died on August 28, 2007. He is survived by wife Dr. Katalin K´eri, two sons and a daughter. It is befitting to dedicate this special issue to the memory of this distinguished mathematician, the late Professor Mikl´os Farkas. We feel honored to be the guest editors of this special issue and we express our sincere thanks to the management of this journal for their support. Mikl´os, your colleagues and friends will keep you in their memory for years to come (...truncated)


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Editorial, Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, 2009, pp. 1-2, Volume 17, Issue 1-2, DOI: 10.1007/s12591-009-0015-9