Corzan Avendano Gabor

* Szomolnok, 20 August 1827 – † Budapest, 24 June 1903 / mathematician, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1864) ; ; He completed his studies in Selmecbánya (1847–1849) and at the Vienna University of Technology (1850–1853), where he studied mathematics and physics. In 1858 he was a teacher at the Markó Street High School in Pest, its deputy director from 1866, its director from 1867–1872, and then from 1872 he was a teacher at the Ludovika Academy. In 1869 he became a private tutor of physics (“higher natural science”) at the University of Pest. He retired in 1897 with the title of royal councilor. In addition to numerous treatises, which were published in the Kritikai Laps, the Tesztergomtunádi Közlöny, the Ludovica Academy Bulletin, etc., he wrote high school mathematics textbooks and compiled example collections. ; ; His main works: ; The Prehistoric History of the Earth, 1868, ; The Principles of Quantitative Science, 1880, ; Quantitative Practice Book, 1882.