Lwów School of Mathematics

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Lwów School of Mathematics, 1930
Part of the Scottish Book with Stefan Banach's and Stanisław Ulam's notes

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

References

  • Ulam, Stanisław Marcin (1976). Adventures of a Mathematician, illustrated with photographs. .