My Hungarian boss has appeared and all is clear. There is, most exceptionally, not only one, but two, typos. Liss is not a Hungarian name. Kiss is, being that, not only of my neurosurgeon, but also of my boss's grandfather. Pronounced `Kish', by the way. The other typo comes from the stutter G\''eza, which puts an accent on the (second) apostrophe. This should have been G\'eza, i.e., G Eacute Z A. The curiosity is that the entry comes up, whether you search on `Liss' or on `Kiss' -- presumably MR have spotted the typo, and put in an alias. R. On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Richard Guy wrote:

In CMP 2003 #17 Dec19 2003 under 11D I find a paper by Liss, G'eza.

First query: the accent is an apostrophe between the G and the e and surmounted by ' (acute accent). My Hungarian colleague isn't in this morning, so I can't get any further explanation.

But the amazing thing is: when I search MathSciNet with Liss I get 3 hits: a William J. Liss, an Elizabeth D. Liss and the following, which agrees with the CMP entry in all but the K.

MR1995985 Kiss, G. On the extremal Frobenius problem in a new aspect. Ann. Univ. Sci. Budapest. Eötvös Sect. Math. 45 (2002), 139--142 (2003). 11D04 (11B13 11D85)

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What's going on? Incidentally, the family name of my beautiful and talented neurosurgeon is Kiss. R.

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