Jens Clausen

Egon Balas

The optimistic predictions of a number of microbiologists notwithstanding, the past decade has not signaled the end of infectious disease, but rather an introduction to a host of new and complex microorganisms and their resulting depredations on humanity. The identification of new pathogens, such as the causative agent of Lyme disease and the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV), as well as the Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV) has not only revealed new forms of clinical pathology, but new and unexpected variations on the life cycle and the molecular biology of the pathogens. In this volume a number of the leaders in the field of Hepatitis Delta virus research, ranging from clinicians and virologists to molecular biologists and biochemists describe what in their experience typifies some of these unique features.

4th International IPCO Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 29 - 31, 1995. Proceedings

Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization

Will to Freedom is an eyewitness account of the social and political upheaval that shook Eastern Europe from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s. As an underground resistance fighter, political prisoner, fugitive, and Communist Party official, Egon Balas charts his journey from idealistic young Communist to disenchanted dissident. Attracted by its anti-Nazi stance, Balas joined the Hungarian Communist Party in 1942, after Hungary had entered the war on Hitler’s side. He helped organize work stoppages and distributed antiwar leaflets. In his memoir, he offers a compelling account first of his eventual imprisonment and ordeal under torture and then of his escape and life in hiding. Later, Balas rose to high positions in postwar Romania. Arrested again, this time by the Communist authorities, he spent two years in solitary confinement. Unbroken, he was released after Stalin's death but was never forgiven for his refusal co cooperate in the staging of a show trial. Disenchanted with the regime, Balas started a new life as a self-educated applied mathematician and, after several unsuccessful attempts, was finally able to leave Romania as a Jewish emigrant in the mid-sixties.

A Perilous Journey Through Fascism and Communism

Will to Freedom

Der berühmter Mathematiker Egon Balas nimmt seine Leser mit auf eine erstaunliche Lebensreise: Sie erfahren von großem Mut, grenzenlosem Optimismus und von dem Leid, das Balas auf seinem Weg von Transsilvanien nach Pennsylvania begleitete. Egon Balas wurde 1922 als Sohn ungarisch-jüdischer Eltern geboren, ein Großteil seiner Familie wurde zwischen 1942–1944 ermordet. Nach dem 2. Weltkrieg geriet er in Opposition zum stalinistischen Regime in Rumänien und emigrierte 1966 in die USA. Balas gilt als einer der Pioniere der mathematischen Optimierung.

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