Gyula Strommer (8 May 1920 – 28 August 1995) was a Hungarian mathematician and astronomer.* E. Molnár: Constructions in the absolute plane – To the memory of Gyula Strommer (1920-1995), Journal for Geometry and Graphics Volume 20 (2016), No. 1, 63–73., Online
He discovered an asteroid, 1537 Transylvania, on 27 August 1940. This was his first scientific success. From 1942, he was a teaching assistant in the Department of Descriptive Geometry at the Technical University of Budapest. In 1952, he became the head of the Descriptive Geometry Department. In 1972, he was appointed a university professor. Between 1981 and 1987, he was the dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.
His research topics: the foundations of geometry, Bolyai-Lobachevsky geometry.
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