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ABOUT USKnowledge, information and quality: these are the three things that shape Typotex Publishing House's businessactivities. Typotex was the first electronic publisher in Hungary. We develop, manage & disseminate knowledgethrough books and the Internet. We work with the best Hungarian academics and authors in long-standingloyal partnerships based on mutual trust and we are always open to new input. Many of our publications areconsidered authoritative works in the field of science & pop science, read by academics and students, usedby libraries and universities, academic professionals and practitioners. Recently we have been involved in dif-ferent forms of e-book publishing www.interkonyv.hu and international literary projects like: Babel WebAnthology www.babelmatrix.org, Visegradliterature www.visegralditerature.net, Hungarians in Babelwww.magyarulbabelben.net.

ARS PUBLICAE OF TYPOTEX is enbodied in a series which introduces interesting new aspectsand provocative minded authors from around the world to Hungarian readers.

• Radical Thinkers: e.g. Alan Sokal & Jean Brichmont, whose book unveils the imposture in social science.• Unusual Aspects: e.g. Bjørn Lomborg, the author of Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide.• Picture Philosophies of Daniel Arasse, Pavel Florenszkij.• Claves ad Musicam from Carl Dahlaus, Eduard Hanslick.

The Eternal Golden Braid is not only the opus of Dougles Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach but it is persistentin our favorite logician- mathematician-magician-pianist author, Raymond Smullyan’s series of logical books.

POJECTSInterkönyv / Interbook • Babel Web Anthology / Babelmatrix • Visegradlitearture • Magyarul Babelben / Hun-garians in Babel

MAIN PUBLISHING FIELDS:• History & Philosophy of Art, Music & Science• Math & Problems Books• Information Theory• Physics & Engineering• History & Philosophy of Science• Pop-Sciences• Evolution & Cognitive Sciences

ABOUT US

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CULTURE ONE – HUMAN SCIENCESHistory & Philosophy of Art and Music Translated authors from foreign languages into Hungarian: D. Arasse • G. Agamben • C. Dahlhaus • E. Hanslick • N. Matsier • P. Florenszkij • J. North • S. Yates• M. Doorman • J. Roubaud • J. Brodsky • R. Riemen • Whitehead • Žižek • A. Badiou • L. Middelaar• I. Lakatos • K. Popper • S. Lem • D. Hofstadter

• István OROSZ • Endre BOJTÁR • Imre TRENCSÉNYI-WALDAPFEL• Géza FODOR • Tihamér MARGITAY • Júlia KATONA

CULTURE TWO – SCIENCEMath & Information TheoryTranslated authors from foreign languages into Hungarian: L. Lovász • A. A. Borovkov • A. N. Kolmogorov • V. V. Prasolov • I. R. Safarevics • D. K. Fagyejev• R. P. Halmos • Gy. Pólya • G. Weeks

• Miklós LACZKOVICH • Gisbert STOYAN et al. • Lajos RÓNYAI et al.• István REIMAN • László GYÖRFI et al. • Mária SZÉKELYI et al.• László CSIRMAZ • András RECSKI et al.

Problems & Activity BooksTranslated authors from foreign languages into Hungarian: R. Smullyan • P. Boulanger • D. Shasha • H. Rademacher – O. Toeplitz

• Péter GÁL • László HOLICS• István REIMAN • Sándor RÓKA

Physics & Engineering, Philosophy & History of ScienceTranslated authors from foreign languages into Hungarian: J. D. Jackson • L. D. Landau – E. M. Lifisc • E. F. Taylor – J. A. Wheeler

• Tamás S. BÍRÓ • László HOLICS • László E. SZABÓ• József BOKOR et al. • Péter HRASKÓ • János KISS• Dénes BÓDIZS • Gábor KUTROVÁTZ et al. • Livia SARKADI• László CSER • László VEKERDI• Tamás GESZTI • László ROPOLYI

BETWEEN TWO CULTURES – THIRD CULTURESPop-ScienceTranslated authors from foreign languages into Hungarian: A. Brahic • L. Lederman • T. Gowers • J. Brichmont – A. Sokal • M. Buchanan • J. Fanu • T. Ferris •J. Leggett • B. Lomborg • D. McCandless

• Iván ALMÁR & Zoltán GALÁNTAI • Alfréd RÉNYI • Julianna SZENDREI• Attila ASZÓDI & Zoltán SZATMÁRY • Balázs BODÓ • Klára SÁNDOR• Rózsa PÉTER • Miklós SIMONOVITS

Evolution & Cognitive Sciences Translated authors from foreign languages into Hungarian: C. Darwin • S. Jones • D. Dennett • J. Diamond • E. O. Wilson • J. P. Changeux • D. Draaisma • A.Gopnik • M. Jouvet • G. Miller • S. Pinker • K. Popper • S. J. Gould • J. Goudsblom • B. Julesz

• Tamás BERECZKEI • Tihamér MARGITAY• Csaba PLÉH • Attila M. FARKAS

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About Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Authors List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Culture One – Human Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

• History & Philosophy of Art and Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Culture Two – Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

• Math & Information Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

• Problems & Activity Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

• Physics & Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

• Philosophy & History of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Between two Cultures – Third Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

• Pop-Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

• Evolution & Cognitive Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

E-publishing interface & Know-how transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

• Interbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Invitation to Networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

• Babelmatrix Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

TeXability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

• TeX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

CONTENTS

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CULTURE ONE – HUMAN SCIENCES History & Philosophy of Art and Music D. Arasse • G. Agamben • C. Dahlhaus • E. Hanslick • N. Matsier • P. Florenszkij •J. North • S. Yates • M. Doorman • J. Roubaud • J. Brodsky • R. Riemen • Whitehead• Žižek • A. Badiou • L. Middelaar • I. Lakatos • K. Popper • S. Lem • D. Hofstadter

Géza Fodor

VISION OF THE WORLD IN MOZART’S OPERAS

Pages: 565 Publication date: 2007

Keynote: In this 'philosophical opera-guide' the topic of the investigation is therelation between the spirit of the time and the form of a work of art as it is illus-trated and accomplished in six Mozart’s operas. The world of Mozart's operas at-tempts to achive two goals. On the one hand it describes the mystical jump wichdistinguishes the works of a genius from the average standard of its time. On theother hand it intends to characterise the relation between the 'evergreen' authen-

ticity of Mozart’s operas and the specific circumstances of their emergence. Fodor's book makes a geniuneeffort to reconstruct these organic relations. It traces down the process of realisation of the Enlightenmentspirit and moral sensitivity in the forms and dramatics of Mozart’s operas. He therefore offers an alternativeapproach as opposed to the traditional one which wants to create connections between the raw contentof the work of art and its sociological-spiritual equivalent.

Target market: Those intrested in music theory, the aesthetics of music.

Endre Bojtár

DREAMING HOMELAND AND PEOPLE…The Enlightenment and Romanticism in the Central and Eastern European Litearture

Pages: 330 Publication date: 2008 Rights sold: Slovak

Keynote: Endre Bojtár express in his long essay the strong similarity of EasternEuropean literatures and the role of literature in the definition of nationality.The romantic novel is not a "real" historical novel. Then what? The leading Centraland Eastern Europe also read: adventure novel. Therein lies the secret of thegenre's enormous popularity: The twisty plotfulness, the unanimity and steadiness

of the characters and the colorful language style. The only trouble is that, despite the many protests all ofthe romantic historical novel are real: most of them required reading for school, multiple set to music,adapted for the screen and cartoon, TV, radio staff work, the main shaper of our past pictures developed.And here is more serious things are at stake: the coexistence of the Central and Eastern European nations.

Target market: Those interested in Central-European litarature and history of litearatre.

CULTURE ONE – HUMAN SCIENCES

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István Orosz

THE AMBASSADOR AND THE PHARAOH

Pages: ~ 320 In preparation

Keynote: This book was written about, or rather on the pretext of two pic-tures. One of them was painted by Holbein, but somebody, sometime forgedhis name under the other one. Once in the past they were hanging in the samehall, in the customer’s castle, who was Jean de Dienteville, a French ambassadorfrom the 16th century. Now, they are separated by an ocean.

Scholarly analysis, attempts on interpretation, literary fiction and a contempo-rary artist’s written and drawn notes – these constitute this book. The author,István Orosz just like Holbein, often worked on assignment. He tried severaltimes the special portrayal techniques of paintings and the optical illusion calledanamorphosis, and perhaps it is not of minor importance that he had the op-portunity of living in a totalitarian dictatorship similar to that which had sur-rounded the German painter and the French ambassador in the royal court ofHenry VIII.

The reader should select according to his/her pleasure from among the severaland sometimes conflicting threads, select or reject explanations, we could addin good style, indeed as the most important criterion of the anamorphosis isthat appropiate viewpoint and a redeeming visual angle must be found out bythe viewer.

HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF ART AND MUSIC

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Tihamér Margitay

THE ART OF REASONINGEffective Tools of Persuasion


Keynote: The book covers the analysis, the evaluation and the criticizing of rea-soning and offers the participants practical guide to how to improve their judgmentand critical reasoning.Reasoning has important roles to play in theoperation of organizations for two

reasons: firstly, when making decisions, wechoose according to what is for and what is against certain alter-natives, and secondly, we support and get across our claims by effective reasoning. Reasoning, therefore,is a tool for us to judge the situations correctly and to make good decisions.

Target market: This is a perfect introduction to logic because it teaches one how to think clearly aboutissues that one encounters in ordinary life. At the same time, it equips the student who wants to go furtherin philosophy with the powerful analytic techniques appropriate to that task. There is NO CHANCE that astudent who reads this book will be left wondering about the importance of logic.

Imre Trencsényi-WaldapfelMITHOLOGY

Pages: 467 Available in Czech, Polish, Russian

Keynote: The author expounds the origin, the evolution and the menaing ofdifferent myths and follows the mutual changes from the East to the West.The author Imre Trencsényi-Waldapfel was an exeptional talented literary historian,classical scolar and historian of religion. He graduated in 1932 at Hungarian–Lati–Ancient Greek chair. He wrote the Mithology expressly for the young generations.The book has peen published for several times in four languages. Beside it is

a pleasurable reading for every age-group, and is an exact source of knowledge. It is no accident why wenominate the short stories about the Gods and their descendant heroes to ”myths” (even in Greek words).The system of myths – the clear scource of the European culture – unfolded in the richest way by theGreeks. The book mediates the most important Greek and Roman tales and legends. The colorful storiesspiced with vivid dialogues comprise the wide range of the world of different legends, from the ideas ofthe origin of humanity to the tales based on real historical events. The author expounds the origin, the evo-lution and the menaing of different myths and follows the mutual changes from the East to the West.

Target market: Those interested in litearture, religion and history. Lovers of tales and historical stories.Readers of all ages.

CULTURE ONE – HUMAN SCIENCES

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Júlia Katona

SAMPLEBOOK OF CREATIVE ORNAMENTAL ART


Keynote: The creative Reader could try to produce – using thehelping lines and chequered fields – ancient Meander stripes,Renaissance palmetto ornaments, baroque shell forms or Arabicnet patterns. The book also guides the Reader through the impor-tant styles and periods of history of arts.

We admire the ornamental richness of a Chinese porcelain vase. This is a creation of an artisan who oncefollowed the tradition; who worked after patterns in forms and techniques. The patterns can be seen byus as s/he saw them. The ornaments can even be drawn by us. For this we have ‘only’ to be able to recognizethe structure of the motives and the rules in their connections. This samplebook provides help on this.

Target market: This book gives an opportunity for the Reader to become a creative artisan.

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CULTURE TWO – SCIENCEMath & Information Theory

L. Lovász • A. A. Borovkov • A. N. Kolmogorov • V. V. Prasolov • I. R. Safarevics • D.K. Fagyejev • R. P. Halmos • Gy. Pólya • G. Weeks

Miklós Laczkovich

CONJECTURE AND PROOF

Pages: 100 Publication date: 2007 Available in English

Rights sold: The Mathematical Association of AmericaKeynote: This text is an elaborate version of a one-semester lecture courseof the Budapest Semesters in Math ematics (BSM), a program for foreign students.This program was initiated and designed by Paul Erdős, László Lovász, Vera T. Sós

and László Babai with the intention to offer undergraduate courses conveyingthe tradition of Hungarian mathematics. Altough the text discusses questions

of various fields in cluding number theory, algebra and geometry, it is centered around the real number systemand the problem of measure.

Target market: ”Conjecture and Proof” is a collection of the lecture notes designed for a one-semestercourse in Hungary for American and Canadian students.

László Csirmaz

NON-STANDARD ANALYSIS


Keynote: The book contains the material of a one-semester course on nonstan-dard analysis.By providing nonstandard proofs for significant, interesting and deep mathemat-ical theorems, it examplifies that the nonstandard method is not a toy, but couldbe a handy research tool. The author is the head of the Computer and StatisticsCenter of the Central European University, Budapest, and researcher at the Eotvos Lorand University.

Target market: The book can be used by engineers, physicists, mathematicians, but first of all, universitystudents, who want to understand what the infinitesimals are, how the nonstandard method works, andwhat are its advantages and disadvantages.

CULTURE TWO – SCIENCE

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Stoyan Gisbert

NUMERICAL METHODS FOR ENGINEERS AND PROGRAMMERS


Keynote: This is a short book of about 200 pages (having in view a little bit morethan a one-semester course), but with elementary detailed explanations how andwhy numerical methods work - for non-mathematicians, together with algorithmsin a pseudo-code, with exercises for self-study and for written examinations. Thebook is self-contained, remembers in about 25 boxes mathematical prerequitesor formulates there important insights and summaries, contains also several tables

showing computing results, moreover 11 pseudo-code algorithms together with 25 test examples, and 23 figures.

Target market: This book gives an introduction into numerical methods on an elementary level for un-dergraduate students in engineering and informatics, with very few prerequisites assumed (from calculusand algebra, but quoting the most important at the beginning of the chapters, even remembering math-ematical facts learned at the high school).Available also in comprehesive monography in 3 volume.

Stoyan Gisbert – Galina Takó

NUMERICAL METHODS I–III.

Pages: 440 + 440 + 300

I. Floating point calculations, numerical linear algebra, interpolation and approximation, calculation of integrals,solution of nonlinear equations and extremal problems. II. Ordinary differential equations: initial and boundaryvalue problems. III. Partial differential equations: elliptic, parabolic, hyperbolic and Navier–Stokes equations.

Target market: MSc level for mathematicians, PhD students in Engineering

OTHERS:• László Surányi: Geometric solids, rings, polynoms. Pg: 196• Pál Rózsa: An Indroduction to the matrix theory. Pg. 476• Emil Kiss: An Indroduction to the algebra. Pg. 716• Péter Simon L. – János Tóth: Differential Equations /Introduction to the theory and

practice. Pg. 393• Ákos G. Horváth – Jenő Szirmai: Modells of the Non-Euclidean Geometry. Pg. 125• Béla Vízvári: Integer programming. Pg. 354 • Béla Vízvári: Operational research modells. Pg. 293• Gisbert Stoyan (eds.): MATLAB-updated version. Pg. 400

MATH & INFORMATION THEORY

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Lajos Rónyai (eds.)

ALGORITHMS


Keynote: This book serves as the primary text of the regular course on algo-rithms, data structures and complexity.

Target market: Offered to BSc students of computer science at TechnicalUniversities.

Gyula Katona – András Recski – Csaba Szabó

THE BASICS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE


Keywords: Graph theory, computational complexity, algebra and number theory.At first, it covers the basic results in enumerations and combinatorial analysis. Itsmain part is devoted to graph theory, with special emphasis on the more appli-cable. Finally, it includes a short introduction to some concepts of computationalcomplexity, algebra and number theory with applications for designing effectivegraph algorithms and for public key cryptography.

Target market: Textbook for electrical engineering undergraduate students.

László Györfi – Sándor Győri – István Vajda

INFORMATION AND CODE THEORY


Keynote: Information theory is a mathematical theory of telecommunication.In these days we witness a wide-scale spreading of different data compressingand error-limiting methods in data transmission, so it is reasonable to survey theirbasic principles. The first chapter deals with data compression without loss, the secondone with source coding allowing distortion. The topic of the third chapter is channelcoding. The fourth chapter comprises the bases of error fixing codes, the fifth one

deals with open key cryptography. The latter field plays an ever increasing role in the era of the Internet.

Target market: This work will be valuable to researchers, lecturers and graduate students in informationtheory, and mathematical programming and optimization.


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Katalin Friedl – András Recski – Gábor Simonyi

EXERCISES IN GRAPH THEORY


Keynote: This collection is based on the discrete mathematics for the under-graduate electric engineering majors and informatics majors at the BudapestUniversity of Technology and Economics. The book contains about 500 problemsin the topics of graph theory, with full solutions.

Target market: This work will be valuable to researchers, lecturers and graduatestudents in graph theory, combinatorics, VLSI design, circuits and systems, and mathematical programming and optimization.

Tibor Jordán – András Recski – Dávid Szeszlér

SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION – COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATIONFOR ENGINEERS


Keynote: The topics of the first four chapters are each covered by many thickvolumes in several languages. This text is used since 2002 for the graduate class"System optimization" for informatics majors at the Budapest University of Tech-nology and Economics. The English version will also contain some 50 exercisesfrom past exams and full solutions of the odd numbered exercises.

Target market: The novelty of this book is that here we only give the necessary minimum for engineersand in the later chapters the applicability of these advanced mathematical tools is illustrated by detailedcase studies in electrical engineering, in design of telecommunication networks or VLSI chips and in structuraltopology for civil engineers.

Ildikó Barna – Mária Székelyi

SURVIVAL KIT TO SPSSMultivariate Techniques for Social Researchers


Keynote: The book teaches would-be and practicing quantitative social re-searchers that since SPSS executes all syntactically correct commands, the choicebetween different statistical methods, building a model and its interpretationshould be well-thought-out.

Target market: This book is useful for (would-be) empirical social researchersto get through the jungle of quantitative data.

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István Reiman

MATHEMATICS


István Reiman is a memorable teacher of mathematicians, maths teachers, en-gineers and of several generations of successful mathematical Olympiad teams.His comprehensive work was written primarily for those who earlier for school-leav-ing exams, nowadays in many cases already in BSc studies want to see and un-derstand what are maths about. No better compendium can be recommended for further studies or retrospection.

OTHERS: • Zoltán Csörnyei: Lambda-caclulus. Pg. 316• Attila Álmos – Gábor Horváth – Annamária Várkonyiné Kóczy – Sándor Győri:

Genetic algorithms. Pg. 255• Levente Buttyán – István Vajda: Cryptography and it's applications. Pg. 470• András Pataricza (eds.): Formal methods of the Information Technology. Pg. 312• Domodos Tikk (eds.): Textmining. Pg. 300

Problems & Activity Books – For Talented StudentsR. Smullyan • P. Boulanger • D. Shasha • H. Rademacher – O. Toeplitz

István Reiman – Sándor Dobos

INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICAL OLYMPIAD (1959–2003)

Pages: 400 Available in English

Rights sold: Anthem PressKeynote: Elementary level math, contains a lot of good problems for problemsolving practice. This book features every question set to date, along with comprehensive solutionsand multiple answers where applicable. Of interest to serious mathematiciansand enthusiasts alike, István Reiman’s compilation of logic puzzles and questionswill tease the intellect of all those with a mathematical mind.

Target market: Talented secondary school students.


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Péter Gál

TANGLEMENT PUZZLES, PENTOMINOES AND OTHERS


Keywords: Disentanglement puzzle, logical games, brainteasers.This book guides its readers through the interesting universe of mechanical puzzles.This work, as to its approach and content, is unique on the Hungarian book mar-ket. The various groups of puzzles are discussed according to categories used inthe related international literature. The most famous puzzles are described in detailalong with a short story of their background. In many categories quite a fewbrand new puzzles are also covered, some of them introduced to the general

public for the first time. A comprehensive set of 1000 meticulously drawn illustrations makes it easy tovisualize the puzzles and at the same time provides assistance for handcrafting them. A special chapter isdedicated to some exciting mathematical aspects of the puzzles. Another section provides clear and inspir-ing, step-by-step instructions to help readers make the puzzles at home. The book features a considerablenumber of brainteasers of various levels of difficulty: some are solvable within moments of reflection evenby kids, others need hours and there are those where it seems impossible to know where to start. Thebook also discusses some fascinating problems with no solutions so far, presenting excellent topics foreven scientific articles or university theses.

Target market: The book is not an academic work; it uses language that is easy to understand, andoffers excellent intellectual entertainment and a challenge for all age groups.

PROBLEMS & ACTIVITY BOOKS

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László Holics

300 CREATIVE PHYSICS PROBLEMS WITH SOLUTIONS

Pages: 816 / English 538 Publication date: 2004 Available in Eglish

Rights sold: Anthem Press Keynote: The book covers traditional topics, but rather than a mechanical prepa-ration for examinations it offers young people the opportunity for creative un-derstanding. Exercises and solutions contained in this book show the up-growinggeneration an example of how far one can get relying on high-school physicsand how rich the toolset of problem solving can be.

László Holics, physicist, physics teacher has been teaching in the Apaczai Secondary School since 1959.He worked for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, now he is a popular teacher among his students andthe winner of numerous awards, the prestigious Rátz László Honorary Award for Teachers included.

Target market: This collection of exercises, compiled for talented high school students, encourages cre-ativity and a deeper understanding of ideas when solving physics problems.

Ferenc PogátsMATHEMATICAL COMPETITIONS IN MEMORIAMTAMÁS VARGA VOL. II. (1993-1997)

Ferenc PogátsMATHEMATICAL COMPETITIONS IN MEMORIAMTAMÁS VARGA VOL. III. (1998-2002)

Pages: 160 Pages: 200

Tamás Varga was one of the leading figures in mathematics education throughdecades, who did not believe in mathematical "tonedeafness". He made "hatedmathematics" nice and attractive for many pupils just on the basis of wonderingand on the desire of discovery. The competitions were organized in the spirit ofhis memory giving an opportunity to lower school children between 12 and 14years of age to compare their knowledge and problem-solving abilities. The con-tests may turn out to be the start of a scientific career for a number of them.


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András Hraskó – Tünde Fazakas (eds.)

MATHS EXERCISES FOR 13-14 YEAR OLD EAGER HOBBITS VOL. II.

Pages: 314

Solving problems is only one part of the mathematical thinking (the other partsinclude creating notions, setting up theories, planning algorithms and so on), butthe problem-solving skills acquired in Fazekas have proved to be fundamentallyimportant in my practical mathematical works. Especially during solving problemsin maths competitions one can acquire an ability of distinguishing promising and

not so promising ideas, or that of recognizing dead ends on time and avoiding them. These volumes testifythat the famous spirit of Fazekas is still very much alive and kicking, and the teachers and pupils cultivatemaths with as much enthusiasm and loving care as they did when I went there. I wish the Reader many enter-taining and informative hours of problem-solving!

(László Lovász)

Sándor Róka

137 NUMERICAL PUZZLES


Keynote: Solving a puzzle is always a pleasure to the puzzer. The world of thenumbers is an interesting world. For example through a short crooked reasoningwe could easily prove that every number is interesting.

Theorem: Every positive integer is interesting.

Proof: Let’s suppose that this statement isn’t true. Take the smallest non-interesting integer. But then it isan interesting number, because this is the smallest ’non-interesting’! We reached a contradiction. Ergo thetheorem is true.We have chosen an interesting number: it is the 137. This would be the supernumber of this book for whichwe marked out super tasks, it just has to be found out which they are – unless otherwise through solvingall of them. Why did we choose exactly this number?Well then, in the modern physics this number occures frequently.But in this book there would not be a single mentioning of modern physics, only many-many numericalpuzzles.

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Physics & Engineering

J. D. Jackson • L. D. Landau – E. M. Lifisc • E. F. Taylor – J. A. Wheeler

BASIC THEORIES IN PHYSICS

Péter Hraskó

BASIC RELATIVITY


Rights sold: Springer VerlagKeynote: Traditional presentations of relativity theory start with the introductionof Lorentz-transformations from which the peculiar phenomena of the theorytime dilatation, Lorentz-contraction, the velocity addition formula, etc. follow.Lorentz-transformation is based on both the constancy of the velocity of lightand Einstein-synchronization prescription, and the interrelation between thesetwo constituents is open to the frequent misunderstanding that the constancy

of the light velocity is enforced by the special synchronization of clocks rather than being the law of nature.In order to avoid this pitfall an ad hoc though rigorous presentation of the theory's observational peculiaritiesin Part 1 precedes the introduction of the Lorentz-transformation (and any synchronization procedure).After the introduction of these transformations in Part 2 those same relativistic effects are reconsideredthis time in a systematic manner. Part 3 is devoted to the fundamentals of general relativity.

Target market: Well suited for first year undergraduate students. This book really deserves the title "Basic"- it discusses the physical interpretations in a very simple mathematical context, an excellent gateway intothe fascinating world of general relativity; however, it doesn't go very far, but still an excellent introduction.

Tamás Geszti

QUANTUM MECHANICS


Keynote: Applied physics. This up-to-date textbook starts with a two-chapterintroduction easy to read to anyone interested in the topic; the first five chapterscorrespond to a BSc-level introductory course; the whole of the text covers an MSccourse, with a lot of details carrying the reader to the topics of current research.The first edition acquired widespread use in science and engineering faculties inHungary. In the second edition two chapters have been added on contemporary

experimental techniques, and on theory and implementation of quantum information handling. New ap-pendices related to quantum chemistry and solid-state physics are part of the extended text.

Target market: BSc course for Physics and MSc/MA for Engineers. Lecturers and students of science &engineering faculties teaching Quantum Theory on all levels; once graduated scientists and engineers.


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Tamás Sándor BíróVARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES IN THE FUNDAMENTALLAWS OF PHYSICS


Keynote: Alternative of Newtonian mechanics. The variational calculus dealswith optimum finding problems. This approach to physics, others than the familiarNewtonian one, starts with optimum- and symmetry-principles instead of tracingback local changes in the motion to local force effects. The local view actually fol-lows from the global optimalization. This way the basic equations of classical me-

chanics, optics, electrodynamics, thermodynamics, relativity and quantum mechanics are treated in a unifiedframework; the correspondences become more conscious.Target market: MSc/MA students, physics teachers.

László Holics

PHYSICS – SUMMARY FOR BSC STUDENTS


Keynote: Comprehensive physics for BSc students. This book offers a uniquecombination of authoritative content and stimulating applications. The examplesare great, the text is straightforward and clear, and the exercises are adequatelyelaborated, so no problem really leaves you thinking "well, this just can't be right...".

Target market: BSc students in physics.

SPECIAL APPLICATION IN PHYSICS

László Cser

INVESTIGATION OF CONDENSED MATTER BY THE USEOF NEUTRON SCATTERING


Keynote: Applied Physics. The book „Investigation of condensed matter by theuse of neutron scattering" aimed to introduce readers in the basic notions of theapplication of neutron scattering methods for studying atomic and molecularstructure and dynamic behaviour of broad family of condensed matter.

Target market: PhD students in applied physics.

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Dénes Bódizs

MEASURING TECHNIQUES OF NUCLEAR RADIATIONS


Keynote: Applied physics. The book focuses on practical aspects, it can be ef-fectively used in dif ferent areas of measuring nuclear radiations. The main chap-ters of the book are: properties of nuclear radiations; interactions of radiationswith matter; detectors: general considerations, types of detectors: gas-filled,scintillation, semi conductor detectors, neutron detection; electronics: integrating-and differentiating-circuits, pulse shaping, amplifiers, power supplies, coincidence,

anticoincidence circuits, multichannel analysers; charged-particle spectroscopy, gamma-spectroscopy; specialmeasuring techniques: measurement of low and high intensities, relative and absolute methods, coincidencetechnique. The last chapter deals with quality assurance of the methods and instrumentation.

Target market: The book entitled ‘Measuring techniques of nuclear radiations' contributes to this edu-cation. The aim of the book is to help students prepare for examinations and specialists who apply nuclearradiations in medicine, agriculture and industry.

József Bokor – Péter Gáspár

CONTROL THEORY WITH VEHICLE APPLICATIONS


Keynote: The book focuses on control theory, control design and controllerimplementation tasks. Beyond the theoretical and methodological problems,application fields such as the modeling and control design of road and aerial vehicles,and even traffic processes are discussed. The structure is based on the regularmathematical formalism used in systems and control theory. To improve the under-standability of the book formal definitions and theorems are declared and only

easy-to-follow constructive proofs are used. The results and proofs are cited accurately. The applicationsof the theorem and methodology are illustrated through a large number of examples, and in addition,tables of figures and examples help the reader.

Target market: The subject of the book can be followed by the readers with B.Sc, M.Sc and Ph.D. levelsof education in Transportation Engineering.


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Philosophy & History of Science

Gábor Kutrovátz – Benedek Láng – Gábor Zemplén

THE BOUNDARIES OF SCIENCE


Keynote: The book starts out with the problem of science versus pseudoscience,both in the light of relevant theoretical traditions and in the framework of aneveryday life practical perspective.The book starts out with the problem of science versus pseudoscience, both inthe light of relevant theoretical traditions and in the framework of an everydaylife practical perspective. The disciplinary treatment of the problem from the light

of sociology, philosophy, and history of science is followed by five case studies – on the Intelligent-Designdebate, on parapsychology, on Western astrology, on acupuncture research, and on popular pseudo-histories.The final chapters re-thematize the problem and target questions concerning the public understanding ofscience, expert-dependent decision processes, argumentation theory, and contemporary science studies.

Target market: The targeted audience is wide, ranging from science 'professionals' (univesity teachersand students, researchers) to the 'lay' people trying to understand the social and public role of science inour world.

László Vekerdi

GALILEI – AS HE IS LIVING TODAY


Keynote: This book is history and philology at the same time. It is a commentof questions and doubts about the past and present views on Galilei and hisDialogo. The material has been collected by one of the most well-known librariansin Hungary, and he added several notes too.It is a work to be enjoyed by interested laymen and the initiated of the professionalike. The main text is a readable account even for beginners, told in an entertaining

style and drawing a vivid image of Galilei, both as a man and a scientist. It renders his congenial ideas andhistory-shaping discoveries easy to comprehend. Vekerdi with his incredible erudition critically reviews andreflects on the rich, varied and contoversial Galilei literature. His stature as an autonomous researcher is be-trayed by the fact that although he has read everything and the opposite of everything, virtually all that'sappeared in print on the great Italian scientist by expert historians of science. But he also avoids the otherextreme whereby many researchers get drifted away, namely that of putting in a pigeonhole, classifying,rendering as the idol of some fashionable "reconstruction of the history of science" the scholar living almostfour hundred years away from our times.

Target market: The main text is a readable account even for beginners, told in an entertaining style anddrawing a vivid image of Galilei, both as a man and a scientist.

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László Ropolyi

SHAPING THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE INTERNET


Keynote: Internet philosophy, philosophy of technology and culture, communi-cation theory.The extended use of the Internet has changed not only our corresponding, co-operating, reading, writing, learning, publishing, working, consuming and enter-taining praxis, but radically reshapes the conditions of the human beings existinguniformly for thousands of years. In this process the Internet becomes the

medium or substrate of a third form of human existence, of the web-life. How is it possible? What kind ofproperties of the Internet, what kind of characteristics of its structure, use or working makes this functionpossible? In this book we intend to answer these questions. Inventing and disclosing the nature of the Internet is a rather difficult task. Because of the complexity ofthe Internet it is necessary to consider it as a technological tool, as a communication agent, as a culturalmedium and as an independent organism. In this book we try to apply all of these views together, in thisway shaping a specific methodology called philosophy of the Internet, and try to apply this view to describeand analyze the very nature of the Internet. In this philosophical discourse some elements of the philosophyof technology, philosophy and theory of communication, philosophy of culture, and philosophy and theoryof organization has been involved and put all of them into modern and postmodern contexts in order toshow and explain the origin, the nature and the most important characteristics of the Internet.

Target market: BSc students in any science course.

László E. Szabó

THE PROBLEM OF OPEN FUTUREContingency, Causality and Determinism in Physics


Keynote: Philosophy of science.

László E. Szabó is a lecturer of theoretical physics and philosophy of science atEötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His research is focused on the fundamentalproblems of physics, especially that of quantummechanics and on the philosophical

questions related to physics. Is the world governed by blind contingency – as it is suggested by the mainthesises of quantummechanics -, or is it completely determined – as it follows from the thesises of theoryof relativity – that is the main question of his book.

Target market: This work is written for both, the specialists, and the students of physics and philosophy,as well as for everybody interested in these questions.


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BETWEEN TWO CULTURES – THIRD CULTURESPop-Science

A. Brahic • L. Lederman • T. Gowers • J. Brichmont – A. Sokal • M. Buchanan •J. Fanu • T. Ferris • J. Leggett • B. Lomborg • D. McCandless

Rózsa PéterPLAYING WITH INFINITY

Pages: 300 Published in 21 editions and 10 languages

Rights sold: Rizzoli (Italy)Available: English, German, Czech, Polish, Russian, Bulgarian, Swedish, FrenchDutch. Italian is sold. Keynote: A completely unique and delightful book about the mathematical logicand concepts that relate to infinity: graphic representation of functions; pairingsand other combinations; prime numbers; logarithms and circular functions; for-

mulas, analytical geometry; infinite lines, complex numbers, expansion in the power series; metamathematics;more. It has 216 illustrations.The author is one of the great personalities of the 20th century Hungarian mathematics. She has becomeprofessor at the Eötvös Loránd University. The book was written for the non-mathematical educated publicto make them familiar with her favorite subject. This wonderful book was translated into twelve different languages.

Alfréd Rényi ARS MATHEMATICA

Pages:326 Publication date: 2004

Right sold: Obrador Edéndum (Catalonia)Available in English, German, Czech, Bulgarian, Slovak, Romanian, Swedish,Lithuanian Keynote: This edition contains Rényi’s writings on popular science (Dialogueson Mathematics, Letters on probability, Diary on Information Theory) that hadbeen published as separate books a long time ago. These books had drawn theattention of many later mathematicians, engineers and teachers to mathematics,

influencing their scientific careers; therefore we consider a new edition very important so that a new gener-ation can also enjoy the Art of Mathematics.

Alfréd Rényi was a Hungarian mathematician who made contributions in combinatorics, graph theory,number theory but mostly in probability theory. He founded the Mathematical Institute in Budapest, nowcalled The Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics. There are currently approximately 70 mathematiciansdoing research at the Institute. He is also famous for having said, „If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to be-come happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.”

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Julianna SzendreiDO YOU THINK ITS ALL THE SAME?Dialogues on Mathematics Teaching for Teachers, Parents and Inquirers


Keynote: Didactics of math, learning and teaching mathematics.Why is mathematics tought? Is any special talent needed for understandingMaths? Why is the understanding-based learning important? What are the rolesof the type tasks? Can the problemsolving thinking be taught? These are not onlymethodological questions. The author confesses that during the teaching there is

no solely correct solution. However the professional question of the pedagogy is that the teacher has toknow the alternatives and has to be aware of the advantages and the disadvantages of decision. The dia-logues formulating various standpoints an each different topic give useful long-term assistance mainly toteachers, but also to parents who keep their children’s mathematical development in view.

Target market: Math teachers and interested parents.

Iván Almár – Zoltán Galántai

SPACE IS THE FUTURE OF MANKINDIdeas on the Future of Mankind, on Space, on Cosmic Effects and Connections


Keynote: Fifty years after the start of the space age it becomes more and moreobvious that the future of mankind is inseparable from space – therefore it iseven today an important task to survey the dangers coming from our cosmic en-vironment on the one hand, and the prospects of spaceflight on the other.

Here are some of the arising questions:

• What hinders at present the expansion of mankind in space above all? • Does the increase of space debris endanger travel into space?• May the space elevator or the evolution of space tourism help in the accomplishment of future steps? • Does the planned NASA lunar and Martian exploration program represent a real perspective? • Should mankind abandon the Earth escaping from threatening asteroids or comets? • Do real plans already exist to terraform other celestial bodies or to build habitats in space?

All this leads to some fundamental questions of the relation between our future and the Universe: as seenat present by a space research expert and a futures research expert – i.e. some in the same way, but somedifferently. It is an exciting reading to everybody, who has an interest in the future of mankind and its tech-nology, and at the same time feeling the significance of moral problems as well.

Dr. Almár won the Giordano Bruno Memorial Award in 2008 for technical excellencein the service of SETI

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Zoltán Szatmáry – Attila Aszódi

CHERNOBYL – FACTS, CAUSES, BELIEFS


Keynote: Chernobyl ... Since twenty years, this small Ukrainian town has becomea symbol, an issue for specialists, politicians, and the broadest public kept in un-certainty. The events happened there will probably become part of universal his-tory like the distraction of Pompeii and the tragedy of Hiroshima. The authors ofthis book are specialists and not journalists. They explain in plain language theconstructional problems of the Chernobyl-type power plants, the course of the

severe accident, as well as the technical, social, and political causes leading to it. They summarize the geo-graphical distribution of the emitted radioactive substances and their health effects. They discuss the con-tradictions of the public information available in the media at present and during the months following theaccident. Both the media and the specialists are blamed for the many misunderstandings and false conceptsconcerning Chernobyl. The book is completed by a summary of the reactor accidents of the past.

Balázs Bodó

COPYRIGHT PIRATES

Pages: ~ 450 Publication date: 2011 In preparation.

Keywords: copyright, piracy, intellectual property, informal media markets, socialhistory, printing, communications history, peer-to-peer, file-sharing.

This book uncovers the role of copyright piracy in various cultural ecosystemsfrom the 17th century England to 21st century Hungary in order to understand cur-rent file-sharing piracy. Unlike current discourse on piracy, this work addresses

(peer-to-peer) piracy not as a legal problem, nor as an economic plague, but rather as a social phenomenonthat is neither new, nor exceptional in the development of cultural markets. The longer historical lens detailedin the book suggests that the current crisis of copyright, piracy, and enforcement has much in commonwith earlier periods of technological change and conflict among cultural producers. The book argues thatpiracy is not just a drain on the cultural economy, but a powerful productive force whose legacy in socialrelations will stay with us long after the economic conditions that called it into being – and the power vacuumthat enabled it – have passed.

The texts offers answers for the following questions: who were branded as pirates in the history of printcapitalism? What common characteristics they share across different times and places? What was their rolein local markets? What factors caused their appearance? What factors sustained their existence? What factorsled to their extinctions, if any? The book discusses these questions in a social history framework.

Target groups: intellectual property experts, professionals working on the cultural industries and media,policymakers, academics, non-professional, semi professional culture producers, everyday file-sharers

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Evolution & Cognitive Sciences C. Darwin • S. Jones • D. Dennett • J. Diamond • E. O. Wilson • J. P. Changeux •D. Draaisma • A. Gopnik • M. Jouvet • G. Miller • S. Pinker • K. Popper • S. J. Gould• J. Goudsblom • B. Julesz

Tamás BereczkeiTHE NATURE OF VIRTUE Altruism, Cooperation, Generosity


Keywords: Evolutionary psichology.One of the key questions in the various branches of psychology is why individualshelp unrelated people without the possibility of return. Obviously, helping unfamiliarpeople results from a particular combination of innate inclinations, personality traits,socialization effects, and environmental conditions. The book – partly on the basisof the author’s own research – makes an attempt to show the main motives and

circumstances that may lead to cooperation, altruism and generosity. For supporting his notion of altruismand generosity, the author deploys empirical studies from a wide range of sciences: genetics, evolutionarybiology, anthropology, social psychology, economics.

Target market: Those intrested in cogntive psichology, evolutionary biology and social anthropology.

Csaba PléhTHE ETHERNAL TOPICS OF PSYCHOLOGY


Keynote: This book is a cross-sectional history of psychology. It basically coversthe issues how the image of man was formed in modern psychology. How is thisrelated to our folk psychological image, the way we interpret other humans asfeeling and knowing beings.This slightly unorthodox history of psychology is unorthodox in two ways. Its start-ing pint is the naive image of man, and treats scientific psychology as a constantdialogue between our everyday conception and the scientific conception. On the

other hand, rather than taking a longitudinal historical perspective, it is organized in a cross-sectional manner.It takes the different key topics and surveys them over the history of modern psychology. A returning issue of the anthropomorphism and the teleological way of talk about human actions, andtheir relationship to causal explanations. The book presents psychology as a central human science.Relationships between naive and scientific psychology are treated in the fareme of characteristic pairs. Suchpairs as body and mind, man and beast, nature and nurture, parts and wholes, knowing and feeling, indi-vidual and society, conscious and unconscuo,s normal ana pathological. The historical and conceptual introduction also highlights the crucial issues of present day psychology. It isan introductory textbook for those taking a psychology intro class.

Target market: It is an introductory textbook for those taking a psychology intro class. BSc students in any department.

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Attila Márton Farkas

PHILOSOPHY BEFORE PHILOSOPHYSymbolic Thinking in Ancient Egypt


Keynote: Philosophy, ancient history, Egyptology.Through a wide-ranging analysis and study of the intellectual heritage of the archaicculture before Hellenism, Philosophy before philosophy tries to reveal the earliestseeds of philosophy and philosophical thinking. Considering the rather astonishingcosmological, theological or ontological speculation of the Egyptians, the following

questions arise: Does it make any sense to discuss ancient Egyptian philosophy? Existed a philosophy beforeHellenism at all? Or: Can we talk about philosophy in an archaic culture beyond Europe? Despite of theexamination of questions of culture-historical point of origin, this is not a culture-historical work. Since theintellectual improve¬ment was interlinked with picture symbolics in Egypt, the complex system of symbols– the hieroglyphic writing – basically determined the culture. The example of Egypt seems to support thestatement, that pictures are able to reflect ideas without having direct reference to the sounds of spokenlanguage: this is why the book ends up with the natural history of symbols.

Target market: Those interested in history of religion and philosophy. Lovers of Egyptology. Readers ofall ages.

Klára SándorHISTORIES AND LANGUAGES OF THE HUNGARIAN PAST

In preparation.

Keynote: history of Estern Europe, nomadic Turkic Empires, Hungarian history, Huns, language families,history of linguistics, Hungarian Hun-tradition.Linguists have no doubt that Hungarian belongs to the Uralic languages, however, many Hungarians believethat Hungarians are descendents of the Huns. The first chapters of the book explain how the idea oflanguage families had evolved, as well as the main methods of comparative historical linguistics. Hungarianhistory had a strong connection with nomadic Turkic people in the 6-9th centuries, and was held a Turkicethnic group by Greek, Arab and Slavic sources. The book introduces the history of Eastern Europe in the4-10th centuries, focusing on the nomadic Turkic Empires, the cultural features of Eurasian nomadism, andthe historical-cultural envirenment in which the Hungarian tribes had been formed to a strong ethnic groupwith a common name, ethnic identity, and remarkable military power. Then this book aims to show howthe Hun-tradition had been developed since the 13th century when it was created by a Hungarian historaian,Simon de Keza, how it had become deeply embedded into the hitorical thinking in the age of Humanism,and how it had spread in the Hungarian literature afterwards.

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