Associate Professor (BUTE, Building Q, A/332. telephone:, 463-1011, email: galantai-at-finance.bme.hu)

"The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't get our hands on or even begin to think about in any very definitive way." (Ronald Graham)

ABOUT ME:
PhD in multidisciplinary technological sciences (information sciences and philosophical sciences); associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary; lecturer at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts between 1995 - 2015; author of more than two dozen books (history of science, novels, SF, etc.).
Actual research interests: applied philosophy of science, experimental number theory.

EDUCATION:
  • PhD in multidisciplinary technological sciences (information sciences and philosophical sciences), BUTE, 2002
  • Dr. Univ. (history of technology), BUTE, 1996
  • History – Literature – History of Technology and Science, ELTE BTK – BUTE – Hungarian Philosophical Institute, 1989

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
  • associate professor, BUTE, Department of Finance 2007 -
  • associate professor, BUTE, Department of Innovation Management and History of Technology 2002 - 2007
  • assistant professor, BUTE, Department of Innovation Management and History of Technology 2000 – 2002
  • assistant professor, BUTE, Department of Philosophy 1993 - 2000
  • assistant lecturer, BUTE, Department of Theory of Science and History of Engineering 1991 - 1993

SOME EARLIER POSITIONS:
  • deputy head, BUTE, Department of Innovation Management and History of Technology
  • secretary of Futures Researches Committee of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • secretary of History of Technology and Science Committe of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  • member of Hungarian UNESCO Commitete