Zoltán Tibor Balogh

Zoltán Tibor Balogh, called Zoli, ( born December 7, 1953 in Debrecen, † June 19, 2002 in Oxford ( Ohio)) was a Hungarian- American mathematician who dealt with general topology.

He was the son of the mathematics professor Tibor Balogh at the Kossuth University in Debrecen. His mother was a chemist and also a professor at the university. In 1972 he began his studies of mathematics in Debrecen with the diploma in 1977, where he specialized in topology and in 1976 published his first work. In 1977 he received the Kato - Renyi Prize of the Janos Bolyai - Society and the 1979 Geza -Grünwald price. He investigated further at the Kossuth University and received his doctorate in 1980. In 1984 he was a visiting professor at the University of Toronto and in 1985 at Texas Tech University. 1986 to 1988 he was back in Debrecen as an assistant professor and in 1989 he completed his habilitation at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1988 he was a visiting professor at the University of Miami and 1989 at the University of Wisconsin. In 1990 he became associate professor at the University of Miami with a full professorship in 1994. He suffered early from heart problems, had the age of 31 had a heart attack and a stroke in 1999 and died at only 48 years.

He solved some important open problems, so in 1989, the Moore - Mrowka problem that Moore 's conjecture in the case of locally compact spaces 1991, he constructed a new 1996 Dowker space ( first by Mary Ellen Rudin constructed in 1971 ) and solved in 1998 the problem of Keio Nagami. In 2001 he made ​​the final stone in the affirmative solution of the conjecture of Morita Morita Kiiti, where he just ran out of ZFC ( Rudin and co-workers the second essential part of the conjecture above only under additional assumptions prove ).

He is not to be confused with a native of Romania mathematics professor in Bern Zoltan M. Balogh.