Gyula Strommer

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| birth_place = Aiud

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| death_place = Budapest, Hungary

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| field = Mathematics

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Gyula Strommer (8 May 1920 – 28 August 1995) was a Hungarian mathematician and astronomer.* E. Molnár: Constructions in the absolute plane – To the memory of Gyula Strommer (1920-1995), Journal for Geometry and Graphics Volume 20 (2016), No. 1, 63–73., [https://www.heldermann-verlag.de/jgg/jgg20/j20h1moln.pdf Online]{{Cite web |title=Strommer Gyula Nemzetközi Geometria Alapitv´ny |url=http://math.bme.hu/~szirmai/strommer.html |access-date=2022-09-23 |website=math.bme.hu}}

He discovered an asteroid, 1537 Transylvania, on 27 August 1940. This was his first scientific success. From 1942, he was a teaching assistant at the Descriptive Geometry Department of the Technical University of Budapest. In 1952, he became the head of the Descriptive Geometry Department. In 1972, he was appointed a university professor. Between 1981 and 1987, he was the dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

His research topics: the foundations of geometry, Bolyai-Lobachevsky geometry.