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Index of Names A., Mrs. (née K. T.), and her family, 193 Alexander, Harold Rupert Leofric George, Abrasimov, Piotr Andreevich, Soviet diplomat, British field marshal and earl, 69, 89 282 Alexiewicz, Andrzej, Polish mathematician, Acheson, Dean, American politician, 117 55, 59 Ackermann, Anton, East German politician, Alexits, Gyorgy,˝ Hungarian mathematician, 152 103, 112, 176 Adams, Walter Sydney, American astronomer, Alliluyeva, Nadezhda, Stalin’s second wife, 69 183 Adamska, Krystyna (Krysia), daughter of Altendorf, an acquaintance of the author, 1 Stanisław, 3 Altschüler-Adamski, a New York acquaintance, Adamski, Stanisław, a schoolfriend of the 67 author, 3, 40, 64 Ambrose, Warren A., American Adenauer, Konrad Hermann Joseph, West mathematician, 78, 79 German politician, 191, 228, 260, Ambroses, the family of Warren, 79 261 Anders, Władysław, Polish general, 3, 236 Adjoubei, Alekse˘ı, Soviet newspaper editor, Anderson, an American physicist, UNRRA 306 representative, 17, 21, 22 Adjoubei, Rada, a daughter of Khrushchov and Andrzejewski, Jerzy, Polish writer, 223 wife of Alekse˘ı, 306 Andrzejewski, Marcin, son of Jerzy, 223 Adolf, brother of Stasia Blumenfeld, 5 Andrzejewskis, the family of Jerzy, 223 Aesop, ancient Greek fabulist, 51 Anisimov, a putative Soviet diplomat, 282 Afek, a lottery official, 270 Antonov, Alekse˘ı Innokentievich, Soviet Agnew, Ralph Palmer, American military leader, 222 mathematician, 71 Aristov, Averki˘ı Borisovich, Soviet politician Ahrensburg, a Chicago engineer with General and diplomat, 282 Electric, 75 Arnold, Stanisław, Polish historian, 27, 48 Akhmatova, Anna, Russian poet, 51, 52 Aleksander II, tsar of Russia, 205 B., a Polish engineer, 107 Aleksandrov, Pavel Sergeevich, Soviet B., an engineer and distant relative of Adolf mathematician, 104, 161 Szmosz, 263 Aleksandrowicz, Julian, Polish medical B., Dr. J., an acquaintance of the author, 300 specialist, 173, 219 B., Fredek, an acquaintance of the author, 184 Alexander the Great, Macedonian conqueror, B., Zosia, an acquaintance of the author, 189 367 Bader, Karol, Polish diplomat, 5 © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 379 H. Steinhaus, Mathematician for All Seasons, Vita Mathematica 19, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-23102-0 380 Index of Names Baer, a Polish microbiologist, 168, 216 Bernadotte, Folke, Count of Wisborg, Swedish Bain, Scottish father-in-law of Zbigniew diplomat, 221 Łomnicki, 243 Bernstein, Felix, German-Jewish Balzan, Angela Lina, daughter of Eugenio, 306 mathematician, 71 Balzan, Eugenio, Italian newspaper magnate Bevin, Ernest, British labour politician, 26 and philanthropist, 306 Bharucha-Reid, Albert Turner, African- Banach, Stefan Jr., son of Banach, 180 American probabilist, 249 Banach, Stefan, illustrious Polish Bialoguski, Michael, Ukrainian-born Polish- mathematician, 45, 52, 53, Australian physician and secret 56, 59, 122, 180, 208 agent, 234 Banachiewicz, Tadeusz, Polish astronomer and Bidault, Georges, French politician, 154 mathematician, 12 Bienkowski,´ Władysław, Polish communist Banachowa, Łucja, wife of Banach, 44, 59, 180 activist, 28, 39, 250 Banas,´ Tadeusz, Polish cultural activist, 240 Biernacki, Mieczysław, Polish mathematician Banczyk,´ Stanisław, Polish politician, 37 and chemist, 55, 59, 60 Baranowski, Tadeusz, Polish biochemist and Bierut, Bolesław, Polish communist political medical professor, 9, 21, 22, 181 leader, 115, 119, 122, 151, 159, 164, Baranski,´ Rajmund, Polish politician, 283 170, 178, 183, 191, 192, 203, 279, Barghoorn, Frederick, Yale sociology 281, 314, 332 professor, 318, 319 Birnbaum, Zygmunt, Polish-American Bartel, Kazimierz Władysław, Polish mathematician, 23, 25, 171 mathematician and politician, 39, Bismarck, Otto von, Prussian chancellor, 254 254, 335 Bismarck, Philipp von, German politician, Bartłomiej of Jasło, a 14th century university nephew of Otto, 349 rector, 313, 350 Blackwell, David Harold, African-American Barycz, Henryk Michał, Polish historian and mathematician and statistician, 71, archivist, 313 78, 81, 104 Barycz, Mrs., wife of Barycz, 313 Bloch, Maurycy (Morcio, Morys),´ a fellow Battek, Jerzy, Polish mathematician, 341 student of the author’s daughter, 23, Batteman, Didi, a Dutch-American secretary, 53, 56–58, 62, 78, 104 287 Blumenfeld (assumed name Noga), Jan, son of Bayes, Thomas, English mathematician, 58, Izydor, 5, 49 149 Blumenfeld, Izydor, a plant manager, friend of Beck, Dr., a UNRRA representative, 40 the Steinhauses, 5 Beck, Józef, Polish politician and army officer, Blumenfeld, Stanisława (Stasia), wife of 279 Izydor, 5, 240, 241, 323 B˛eczkowski, Zygmunt, an engineer in Blumenfelds, the family of Izydor, 44 Wrocław, 48 Bobranski,´ Bogusław, Polish chemist, 181 Ben Bella, Ahmed, Algerian president, 351 Bobrowski, Czesław, Polish economist, Ben-Gurion, David, Polish-born Israeli 118 politician, 258, 266 Bodenheim, Maxwell, American poet and Ben-Uri, an Israeli mathematician, 167 novelist, 166 Beneš, Edvard, Czechoslovak political leader, Bogdanowicz, a Polish physicist, 199 92, 97 Bois-Reymond, Emil du, German physician Bergaryn, a Warsaw Jew, 85 and physiologist, 264 Bergman, Stefan, Polish-American Bois-Reymond, Paul du, German mathematician, 78, 79 mathematician, 264 Beria, Lavrenti˘ı Pavlovich, Georgian-born Bojarski, a Polish engineer, 340, 341 Soviet politician, 116, 143, 155, Boltzmann, Ludwig, Austrian physicist and 157, 158, 160, 165, 178, 185, 189, philosopher, 36 211, 214 Bomba, owner of a guest house, 124 Berliner, an American chemist, 286 Borejsza, Jerzy (born Benjamin Goldberg), Berman, Jakub, Polish politician, 178, 200, Polish-Jewish writer and communist 231 activist, 101, 183, 201 Index of Names 381 Bór-Komorowski, Count Tadeusz, Polish Bürger, Gottfried August, German poet, 304 general, 369 Buridan, Jean, French priest and scientist, 242 Borkowska, Countess, wife of the Borkowski Burkhardt, Felix, German mathematician, 191 in Krynica, 126 Burton, Richard, British explorer, soldier, Borkowski, Piotr, an acquaintance of the writer, etc., 272 author, 14 Bush, Vannevar, American engineer and Borkowski, Polish lawyer and owner of a guest science administrator, 69 house in Krynica, 126 Bychowski, a Czech mathematician, 103 Borowicz (or Horowicz), Alfred (Fredek), Byrnes, James Francis, American politician, brother of Olga Pamm, 98 45, 48 Borsuk, Karol (Kazimierz), Polish mathematician, 62, 97, 161, 171 Bortnowska, Halina, Polish philosopher, C., Professor, a colleague of the author, journalist, and human rights activist, 142 325 Caesar, Gaius Julius, Roman military and Boumedienne, Houari, Algerian colonel, 351 political leader, 257, 360 Boy-Zele˙ nski,´ Tadeusz, prominent Polish Cantor, Georg, German-Jewish mathematician, writer, translator, and poet, 39, 246, 71 335 Carroll, Lewis (actually Charles Lutwidge Brach, Miss, a Polish schoolteacher, 354 Dodgson), English logician, Brandt, Willy, German politician, 365 mathematician, and writer, 265 Bratter, a Lwów doctor, 41 Carter, James Earl (Jimmy), American farmer Brauchitsch, Walther von, German field and politician, 301 marshal, 315 Casimir II the Just, Polish duke, 207 Brecht, Bertolt, German Marxist poet and Casimir the Great, last Polish king of the Piast playwright, 101 dynasty, 149, 207 Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich, Soviet politician, 168, Castro, Fidel, Cuban communist revolutionary 337, 342, 346, 354, 366, 372 and dictator, 291, 364 Briand, Aristide, French politician, 108 Catherine the Great, empress of Russia, 39, Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme, French lawyer 267 and politician, epicure, 43 Ceau¸sescu, Nicolae, Romanian communist Broniewski, Władysław, Polish poet, 163 politician, 365 Bronk, Detlev Wulf, American biophysicist Cech,ˇ Eduard, Czech mathematician, 103 and administrator, 286, 287 Cedergren, Mrs. (née Countess Elsa Bronks, the family of Detlev Wulf, 286 Bernadotte), a sister of Count Folke Bross, Wiktor, Polish surgeon and professor in Bernadotte, 221 Wrocław, 98, 361 Césaire, Aimé Fernand David, poet, writer, and Broszkiewicz, Jerzy, Polish writer, 14 politician from Martinique, 102 Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan, Dutch Cézanne, Paul, French painter, 65 mathematician and philosopher, 264 Chadyk, a Kraków radiologist, 6 Bruller, Jean Marcel (penname Vercors), Chambers, Whittaker, American former French writer, 193 communist and accuser of Hiss, Brunowa, a representative of a Polish 117 government ministry, 65 Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan, Indian-born Bucholski, a Polish mathematician, 202 American astrophysicist, 220 Buddensieg, Frau, wife of Hermann, 241 Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, 185 Buddensieg, Hermann Robert Karl, German Chen-pin, a Chinese graduate student of the writer, polonist, 241 author, 243, 316, 337 Bukharin, Nikola˘ı Ivanovich, Russian Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese political and Bolshevik revolutionary, 155, 346 military leader, 5, 106, 109, 112, Bulanda, Edmund Jan, Polish archaeologist, 36 114, 154 Bulganin, Nikola˘ı Aleksandrovich, Soviet Chlebowska, a masseuse, 188 politician, 158, 185, 189, 199, 200, Choibalsan, Khorloogiin, Mongolian general 203, 205 and political leader, 155 382 Index of Names Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek (Frédéric Curtis, John Hampton, a statistician with the François), Polish composer and US National Bureau of Standards, virtuoso pianist, 80, 186, 266 71, 72 Choquet, Gustave, French mathematician, 42, Cwikli´ nski,´ Jan, Polish ship’s captain, 159 52, 53, 59, 60, 62 Cynkin, Tadeusz, a Polish colonel, 316 Chudek, a Czechoslovak diplomat, 118 Cyrankiewicz, Józef, Polish communist Churchill, John, 1st Duke of Marlborough,