Dr. József Gyula Obádovics

Gyula József Obádovics, PhD (Baja, 3 March 1927 -) Doctor of Science, Doctor of Engineering, Candidate of Science in Mathematics. Former head of department at the Agricultural University of Gödöllő, founder of Scolar Publishing House. Author of 15 books, 30 university notes, 52 scientific publications. One of the founders of Hungarian computer science education. He is known throughout the country for his summarizing and practicing manual-like mathematics textbook Mathematics at secondary and higher levels, which has been used by generations and has been published in numerous editions, and is known as “the Obádovics”. He also writes fiction under the pseudonym Simon the Shaman. After his retirement he also published erotic novels under the name Julius J. Coach.
Simon Shaman: Confessions of a Teenager. Poems; Scolar, Bp., 1999
Julius J. Coach. Holiday Loves; privately published by Scolar, Bp., 2007
Julius J. Coach: Being a Girl is Dangerous; Scolar, Bp., 2010
Julius J. Coach: Nonstop Love. A Diary Novel; Scolar, Bp., 2012
In 1945, at Pázmány Péter University, without Latin and Greek baccalaureates, he could not major in literature, so he was admitted to the physics-mathematics department at the university. His excellent teachers were Lipót Fejér, Béla Kerékjártó, Pál Szász, Pál Turán, László Fejes Tóth, Alfréd Rényi.
He graduated in 1950 with a degree in mathematics and physics. In addition to his subjects, he also attended lectures in philosophy, logic, psychology, ethics, didactics, curriculum theory, school organisation, social sciences and literature. At the University of Miskolc, he was an adjunct professor and then associate professor in the mathematics department. He developed the curriculum of computer science and numerical methods. He was head of the Computer Department of the National Centre for Management Training and later organised and became director of the Institute of Computer Science at the MÜM. Bunyevác is a native Hungarian citizen and learned Hungarian only in kindergarten. One of his goals is to re-register the Bunyevac as an independent national minority in Hungary.