Václav Hlavatý (27 January 1894 – 11 January 1969) was a noted Czech-American mathematician, who wrote on the theory of relativity and corresponded extensively with Albert Einstein on the subject. In particular, Hlavatý solved some very difficult equations relating to Einstein's Unified field theory, which was featured in the news media as one of the great scientific achievements of 1953. Einstein himself was reported to have said that if anyone could solve the equations it would be Professor Hlavatý, which proved to be the case. He was born in Louny, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic) and died in Bloomington, Indiana. He obtained his PhD in 1921 at the Charles University in Prague and during World War II participated in the Prague uprising, but his academic career was mainly at Indiana University, which he joined in 1948, and where he became Professor, later Emeritus, of Mathematics. A special book of mathematical essays was published in his honour. In 1958, he became the first President of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences established in Washington DC by intellectuals of Czech and Slovak origin. He was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1928 in Bologna and in 1936 in Oslo. In 1931 he married Olga Neumannova, and they had a daughter, Olga. Some publications Articles Books Reprinted as . References External links Václav Hlavatý biography (in Czech) Václav Hlavatý biography (in Czech) includes photograph 1894 births 1969 deaths People from Louny People from the Kingdom of Bohemia Czech National Social Party politicians Members of the Interim National Assembly of Czechoslovakia Czech mathematicians Charles University alumni Czechoslovak emigrants to the United States American people of Czech descent 20th-century American mathematicians Indiana University faculty Recipients of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk