Timeline for Who wrote up Banach's thesis?
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| Nov 8, 2021 at 17:55 | history | edited | José Hdz. Stgo. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 11, 2020 at 14:04 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Todd Trimble | ||
| Oct 26, 2019 at 16:50 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 9, 2012 at 18:04 | comment | added | Margaret Friedland | And I made a mental shortcut by calling Wilkosz a "logician and a linguist". He did hold the chair of logic at Jagiellonian University and published in set theory, but he also dealt with real analysis, mathematical physics, radio technology and Oriental languages. | |
| Nov 8, 2012 at 15:26 | comment | added | Margaret Friedland | @Harun: Thanks for the quote, my memory did not serve me too well, and I did not have the copy of Steinhaus's memoirs at hand. Otto Nikodym is certainly better known than Wilkosz, yet (perhaps) Wilkosz's permanent association with Krakow (where I studied) made me remember him better. | |
| Nov 8, 2012 at 5:31 | comment | added | Harun Šiljak | @Margaret: Quote from Steinhaus: "During one such walk I overheard the words "Lebesgue measure". I approached the park bench and introduced myself to the two young apprentices of mathematics. They told me they had another companion by the name of Witold Wilkosz, whom they extravagantly praised. The youngsters were Stefan Banach and Otto Nikodym. From then on we would meet on a regular basis, and ... we decided to establish a mathematical society." (www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Steinhaus.html) | |
| Nov 8, 2012 at 0:04 | comment | added | Margaret Friedland | Yes, although the professor's salary was quite high then, Banach wrote texts to support his lifestyle. The high school textbooks he wrote are available here: kielich.amu.edu.pl/Stefan_Banach/podreczniki.html | |
| Nov 7, 2012 at 23:46 | comment | added | Margaret Friedland | Steinhaus included the story about the meeting in the park in his "Memoirs and Notes". It is also repeated in Ciesielski's article quoted below. The other person was Witold Wilkosz, Banach's fellow student, later a logician and a linguist, and a professor at the Jagiellonian University. | |
| Nov 7, 2012 at 22:26 | history | edited | Alexandre Eremenko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 7, 2012 at 22:19 | history | answered | Alexandre Eremenko | CC BY-SA 3.0 |