Tamás Varga und sein inspirierender Einfluss auf den Mathematikunterricht – ein Blick zurück

This article takes up some details of Tamás Varga's legacy from the perspective of a former student. The focus is on his ideas, opinions, reviews and articles on mathematics education in secondary schools. Two school books had a special impact at that time in Hungary, the mathematics textbook (1949/50) by Rózsa Péter and Tibor Gallai for the 1st class of middle schools (14-15 years) and its continuation „Mathematics for the 1st class of middle schools“ (1956) by Tamás Varga and László Faragó. Some of the problems Tamás Varga posed in the Mathematical Journal (e.g. Farkas Bolyai's theorem about the decomposing equality of plane figures and problems with the object area of the definitions of plane figures) are also important. The following explanations refer to his articles on mathematics education and his dissertation on complex mathematics education (1975). Classification: A30, C10, D30, U20. Keywords: History of mathematics education, Hungarian math books for secondary schools, beginning of math lessons by guided discovery