Lwów School of Mathematics
The Lwów school of mathematics (
point-set topology, set theory and functional analysis. The biographies and contributions of these mathematicians were documented in 1980 by their contemporary, Kazimierz Kuratowski
in his book A Half Century of Polish Mathematics: Remembrances and Reflections.
Members
Notable members of the Lwów school of mathematics included:
The end of the school
Many of the mathematicians, especially those of
Jewish background, fled this southeastern part of Poland in 1941 when it became clear that it would be invaded by Germany. Few of the mathematicians survived World War II, but after the war a group including some of the original community carried on their work in western Poland's Wrocław, the successor city to prewar Lwów; see Polish population transfers (1944–1946). A number of the prewar mathematicians, prominent among them Stanisław Ulam, became famous for work done in the United States
.
See also
- Kraków School of Mathematics
- Lwów–Warsaw school
- Polish School of Mathematics
- Scottish Café
- Warsaw School of Mathematics
References
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- Ulam, Stanisław Marcin (1976). Adventures of a Mathematician, illustrated with photographs. ISBN 0-684-15064-6.