Hungary

At a Glance

Student Profiles

•  Corinne Adams
   Budapest

Cherrington Scholars Eligible

• The late Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdös, famous for his preoccupation with abstractions, once said: "A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems."
• László Papp, considered by many to be the greatest Olympic boxer in history, earned gold medals in 1948, 1952 and 1956, becoming the first boxer ever to win three Olympic gold medals.
• Franz Liszt, regarded as one of the greatest pianists of his time, invented the symphonic poem, a single-movement form widely used in contemporary classical music.
• Hungary’s Lake Heviz, the largest thermal lake in the world, is home to a celebrated spa known for the curative powers of its waters and peat mud.
• Imre Kertész, the first Hungarian to receive the Nobel Prize for literature (in 2002), is best known for Fateless, his fictionalized autobiography of his year in a concentration camp.