Johann Makowsky belongs to the mathematical record as a figure whose results outlasted the problems that prompted them.
The record lists Johann Makowsky as Swiss mathematician.
Johann Makowsky was born at Hungary in 1948. His recorded nationality is Switzerland. He studied at ETH Zurich.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
That the work was done from Switzerland matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
