Hungarian-born mathematician Dienes has already been mentioned in the previous chapter. He had been forced to flee Hungary after the fall of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. As a supporter of Béla Kun, leader of the Republic, Dienes had been responsible for reorganising Hungarian universities with the aim of welcoming working-class students. This was not looked upon favourably during the “white terror”, when communist supporters were hunted down; large numbers, executed. Diene fled, bribing a captain of a river boat on the Danube to smuggle him out of the country, hiding in a wine barrel. He was unceremoniously decanted in Vienna, with nothing but the clothes on his back. After time in Vienna, Paris, Aberystwyth, and Swansea, Dienes joined Birkbeck’s Mathematics Department in 1929 and stayed until he retired in 1948, immersing himself in function theory, relativity, tensors, infinite matrices, axiomatics, and mathematical logic.