References for Alfréd Rényi

  1. D G Kendall, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
    http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830905294.html

Books:

  1. A Rényi, Dialogues on Mathematics (Holden Day, San Francisco, 1967).

Articles:

  1. Alfred Rényi (1921-1970) (Bulgarian), Fiz.-Mat. Spis. Bulgar. Akad. Nauk. 13 (46) (1970), 60-61.
  2. Alfréd Rényi. 1921-1970, Studia Sci. Math. Hungar 5 (1970), 4.
  3. N H Bingham, The work of Alfréd Rényi: some aspects in probability and number theory, Studia Sci. Math. Hungar. 26 (1991), 165-183.
  4. I Csiszár, The work of Alfréd Rényi. III. The work of Alfréd Rényi in information theory (Hungarian), Mat. Lapok 21 (1970), 233-241.
  5. B Gyires, Alfréd Rényi (1920-1970), Publ. Math. Debrecen 17 (1970), 1-17.
  6. R Hersh and V John-Steiner, A Visit to Hungarian Mathematics, The Mathematical Intelligence 15 (2) (1993), 13 - 26.
  7. G Katona and G Tusnády, The work of Alfréd Rényi. IV. The pedagogical work of Alfréd Rényi (Hungarian), Mat. Lapok 21 (1970), 243-244.
  8. D G Kendall, Obituary: Alfréd Rényi, Journal of Applied Probability 7 (1970), 509-522.
  9. P Medgyessy, Alfréd Rényi's work', Studia Sci. Math. Hungar. 6 (1971), 3-22.
  10. P Medgyessy, Addendum: 'Alfréd Rényi's work', Studia Sci. Math. Hungar. 7 (1972), 477.
  11. V B Mészáros, The work of Alfréd Rényi. V. In remembrance of Alfréd Rényi (Hungarian), Mat. Lapok 21 (1970), 245-248.
  12. P Révész, The work of Alfréd Rényi. II. The work of Alfréd Rényi in probability theory (Hungarian), Mat. Lapok 21 (1970), 211-231.
  13. P Révész and I Vincze, Alfréd Rényi, 1921-1970, Ann. Math. Statist. 43 (6) (1972), i-xvi.
  14. L Schmetterer, Alfréd Rényi, in memoriam, Proceedings of the Sixth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability Vol. II (Berkeley, 1972), xxv-1.
  15. The works of Alfréd Rényi (1921-1970), Mat. Lapok 21 (1970), 1-18.
  16. P Turán, The work of Alfréd Rényi. I. Alfréd Rényi (20 March 1921-1 February 1970) (Hungarian), Mat. Lapok 21 (1970), 199-210.
  17. P Turán, The life of Alfréd Rényi (1921-1970), Department of Probability Theory and Statistics, Eötvös Loránd University.
    http://www.math.elte.hu/probability/renyi/racv.html
  18. F Ulam, Non-mathematical personal reminiscences about Johnny, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 50 (1990), 9-13.

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