Stanisław Ruziewicz

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Stanisław Ruziewicz
Jan Kazimierz University, Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów
Doctoral advisorWacław Sierpiński
Doctoral studentsStefan Kaczmarz

Stanisław Ruziewicz (29 August 1889 – 12 July 1941) was a Polish mathematician and one of the founders of the Lwów School of Mathematics.

He was a former student of

Lwów
was annexed by the
Massacre of Lwów professors.[3]

The Ruziewicz problem, asking whether the Lebesgue measure on the sphere may be characterized by certain of its properties, is named after him.[4]

References

  1. ^ Stanisław Ruziewicz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Rossowski, Stanisław (1861-1940) Red (1932-06-08), Gazeta Lwowska. 1932, nr 128, retrieved 2022-07-20{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. : "In July 1941 one of my oldest students Stanislaw Ruziewicz was murdered. He was a retired full professor of Jan Kazimierz University in Lvov, the last rector of Foreign Trade Academy in Lvov, an outstanding mathematician and an excellent teacher."
  4. ^ Lubotzky, Alexander (2010), "2 The Banach–Ruziewicz Problem", Discrete Groups, Expanding Graphs and Invariant Measures, Modern Birkhäuser Classics, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, pp. 7–18.