| Article ID: | iaor20101471 |
| Volume: | 18 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 97 |
| End Page Number: | 104 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2010 |
| Journal: | Central European Journal of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Szab Pter Gbor |
| Keywords: | history |
Here we summarize the works of the Hungarian mathematician Jenõ Egerváry (1891–1958) on the trinomial equations. We present some of his ideas and methods with examples. Some earlier results in the history of mathematics in Hungary about the trinomial equations are also discussed.