Stefan Banach

Stefan Banach

male, deceased (1945)
linear space, Hahn–Banach theorem, Banach-Steinhaus theorem, mathematical, child prodigy, linear…Lwów School of Mathematics
Stefan Banach was an eminent Polish mathematician and university professor. A self-taught mathematical prodigy, Banach was a founder of functional...
Mark Kac

Mark Kac

male, deceased (1984)
rockefeller university, Russian Empire, University of Lwow, American, Lwów School of Mathematics, Stanislaw Marcin Ulam…University of Southern California
Mark Kac (pronounced "kahts",, b. 3 August 1914, Krzemieniec, then in the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine; d. 26 October1984, California, USA) was a...

Stanisław Mazur

male, deceased (1981)
mathematician, Polish Academy of Sciences, polish, University of Warsaw, Lwów School of Mathematics, Lwow
Stanisław Mazur was a Polish mathematician. Member of Polish Academy of Sciences. Mazur was a student of Stefan Banach at Lwów. His doctorate, un...
Juliusz Schauder

Juliusz Schauder

male, deceased (1943)
Jewish, mathematician, World War I, polish, hilbert space, Jewish person…Lwów School of Mathematics, Lwow
Juliusz Paweł Schauder was a Polish mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his work in functional analysis, partial differential equation and m...
Herman Auerbach

Herman Auerbach

male, deceased (1942)
scientist, Erdős number 2, Holocaust victim, belzec, Jewish, Jewish person…Lwów School of Mathematics
Herman Auerbach was a Polish mathematician and member of the Lwów School of Mathematics. Auerbach was professor at Lwów University. During the Se...

Stanisław Ruziewicz

male, deceased (1941)
mathematician, second world war, polish, Holocaust victim, gestapo, Lwów School of Mathematics…Massacre of Lwów professor, Lwów Academy of Foreign Trade
Stanisław Ruziewicz was Polish mathematician and one of the founders of the Lwów School of Mathematics. Former student of Wacław Sierpiński, prof...

Włodzimierz Stożek

male, deceased (1941)
mathematician, second world war, polish, ukrainian, Holocaust victim, Lwów School of Mathematics…Lwow, Lwów University of Technology, Massacre of Lwów professor
Włodzimierz Stożek (b. July 23, 1883 in Żółkiew - 3 or July 4, 1941 in Lwów, then Poland now Ukraine) was a Polish mathematician of the Lwów School...

Władysław Orlicz

male, deceased (1990)
Okocim, austria-hungary, Poznań, topology, polish, topologist…Lwów School of Mathematics
Władysław Orlicz (May 24 1903 in Okocim, Austria-Hungary (now Poland) – August 9, 1990 in Poznań, Poland) was a Polish mathematician of Lwów School...

Feliks Barański

male
austria-hungary, Cracow, krakow, mathematician, lviv, polish…Lwów School of Mathematics, Kraków University of Technology
Feliks Barański was a Polish mathematician and an active member of the so-called Lwow School of Mathematics. Born May 1915 in Lwow, A...
Samuel Dickstein

Samuel Dickstein

male, deceased (1939)
World War II, mathematician, Holocaust, polish, poincare, Lwów School of Mathematics
Samuel Dickstein was a Polish mathematician. He was born in Warsaw and was killed there by a German bomb at the beginning of World War II. All the...