The Hungarian Academy of Sciences was named the Hungarian
Scholarly Society when it was founded in Pest in 1825. It had a
charter which stated that there could be no more than 42
members, of whom no more than 18 could be from Pest and no more
than 24 from outside Pest. The Society had six departments:
history, law, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy and natural
sciences. When the Society was founded the mathematics
department had a maximum of six members, at most three from Pest
and at most three from outside. However these were not filled
and in the first 45 years of the Society's existance there were
only two or three mathematicians. The young Society had a number
of issues which they deemed important to make rapid progress on.
One was to develop a dictionary of Hungarian mathematical terms
so that those writing in the Hungarian language could use
genuine Hungarian words and also achieve a consistency of
Hungarian notation. The Society published an Hungarian
Mathematical Dictionary in 1834 but it failed t