Stanisław Mazur
Stanisław Mazur | |
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| Awards | Stefan Banach Prize (1949) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Stefan Banach |
Stanisław Mieczysław Mazur (1 January 1905,
Lwów – 5 November 1981, Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
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Mazur made important contributions to geometrical methods in linear and
infinite games and computable functions
.
Lwów and Warsaw
Scottish book
. The photograph comes from the book Pół wieku matematyki polskiej 1920-1970 ("Half a Century of Polish Mathematics 1920-1970").Mazur was a student of
University of Lwów. His doctorate, under Banach's supervision, was awarded in 1935.[1] Mazur, with Juliusz Schauder, was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1936 in Oslo.[2]
Mazur was a close collaborator with Banach at Lwów and was a member of the
basis problem" of determining whether every Banach space has a Schauder basis, with Mazur promising a "live goose" as a reward: 37 years later and in a ceremony that was broadcast throughout Poland, Mazur awarded a live goose to Per Enflo
for constructing a counter-example.
From 1948 Mazur worked at the University of Warsaw.
See also
- Approximation problem
- Approximation property
- Banach–Mazur theorem
- Banach–Mazur game
- Compact operator
- Gelfand–Mazur theorem
- Mazur–Ulam theorem
- Schauder basis
References
- ^ Stanisław Mazur at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Mazur, S.; Schauder, J. (1937). "Über ein Prinzip in der Variationsrechnung". Comptes rendus du Congrès international des mathématiciens: Oslo, 1936. Vol. 2. p. 65.
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Stanisław Mazur", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- Stanisław Mazur at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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