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wrote of Neményi: "When he came to this country, he went to scientific meetings in an open shirt without a tie and was very much disappointed as I advised him to dress as anyone else. He told me that he thought this was a country of freedom, and the man is only judged according to his internal values
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Neményi's scientific knowledge extended well beyond the subjects of his researches. He has been described as having "extreme versatile interests and erudition". Neményi's interest and ability encompassed several nonscientific fields. He collected children's art and sometimes lectured upon it. In
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equations of gas dynamics, many of them representing rotational flows of nonuniform total energy. His work applied geometrical solutions to fluid dynamics. In continuum mechanics, "Neményi's theorem" proves that, given any net of isothermal curves, there exists a five parameter family of plane
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Julianna Goldberger de Buda (or Buday= von Buda), born 1868 in Budapest, as at least, the fifth consecutive generation Goldberger to do so. Neményi attended elementary and high school in Fiume
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Hungarian national mathematics competition. Neményi obtained his doctorate in mathematics in Berlin in 1922 and was appointed a lecturer in
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Gleb K. Mikhailov, "Development of Studies in the History of Elasticity Theory and Structural Mechanics", in
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Neményi, Paul; Netser, Bennie N. (1940). "Relation of the Statistical Theory of Turbulence to Hydraulics".
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Neményi, Paul (1962). "The Main Concepts and Ideas of Fluid Dynamics in their Historical Development".
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