Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

Larry Niven

Emil W. Kiss

Address:

Department of Algebra and Number Theory
Loránd Eötvös University (ELTE)
Pázmány Péter sétány 1/c.
H-1117 Budapest
Hungary
E-mail: ewkiss@cs.elte.hu
The Mathematical Institute of our University

Váltsunk magyarra


Teaching: Knowledge has to be free!

A Bulletin Board for my STUDENTS (in Hungarian).

A graphic demonstration of Euclid's proof of the Pythagorean theorem.

Can the level of math education sink any lower?


Research interest:

The theory of general algebraic systems.

Publication List and online papers

A general algebra calculator program

Download a textbook:

S. Burris, H. P. Sankappanavar: A course in universal algebra.
Is this book for free?

Algebraic model theory was the main topic at the Fields Institute in Toronto in 1996-97.


Culture and Nature

My favourite conductor is Christopher Hogwood, the founder and director of the Academy of Ancient Music, playing on period instruments. My favourite pianists are Glenn Gould and Zoltán Kocsis.

My favourite writer is Stanislaw Lem, the author of the book Summa Technologiae, and of the novel Solaris.

My favourite chess program is Crafty. It is freely available here, too, and open source.
Peter Leko is still the best!!!!

Take a hike in the magnificent High Tatras!
Here is a sample.

Spring flowers and the famous "Geyser of Vöröskő" in the Bükk mountains (probably the most beautiful part of Hungary).

Summer at lake Balaton.

The neighborhood of Törökmező in the Börzsöny Mountains.

The Bükk mountains, 2006.

Mouflon with rose hip.

Twilight in Zamardi (Lake Balaton).

Pictures from the Mátra Mountains.

Dawn and night in Zamardi (Lake Balaton).

Winter in Zamardi (Lake Balaton).

Birds near Lake Balaton.

Basalt organs and landscape near Szentgyörgy Hill.


Linux or Windows? Freedom or Slavery?


Linux is not free. You pay for it by helping others.

The Right to Read (Richard Stallman's opinion).

How could Microsoft not be evil?

Open up your file formats (including Word and multimedia), support open technical standards instead of sabotaging them, license your patents under royalty-free, paperwork-free terms.

Eric Raymond

Do not let money destroy the world, democracy, the freedom of the internet and computer programming.

AgainstTCPA

A new plan called Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA) has emerged that is worse than any kind of censorship or political control ever implemented in human history. A special chip called Fritz will be integrated into every computer. This will completely control the way you run programs on your computer. For example the government (or Microsoft) will be able to prevent all computers throughout the world reading any given Word document (that they do not like), or running certain programs! See the details below:

The Palladium/TCPA FAQ

Free Hungarian TeX system (Out of date, use LaTeX with babel.)


Last modified 26. December, 2007.