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Recollections and Notes, Vol. 1 (1887–1945) Translated by Abe
Vita Mathematica 18 Hugo Steinhaus Mathematician for All Seasons Recollections and Notes, Vol. 1 (1887–1945) Translated by Abe Shenitzer Edited by Robert G. Burns, Irena Szymaniec and Aleksander Weron Vita Mathematica Volume 18 Edited by Martin MattmullerR More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/4834 Hugo Steinhaus Mathematician for All Seasons Recollections and Notes, Vol. 1 (1887–1945) Translated by Abe Shenitzer Edited by Robert G. Burns, Irena Szymaniec and Aleksander Weron Author Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1972) Translator Abe Shenitzer Brookline, MA, USA Editors Robert G. Burns York University Dept. Mathematics & Statistics Toronto, ON, Canada Irena Szymaniec Wrocław, Poland Aleksander Weron The Hugo Steinhaus Center Wrocław University of Technology Wrocław, Poland Vita Mathematica ISBN 978-3-319-21983-7 ISBN 978-3-319-21984-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21984-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015954183 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. -
Astronomy in Poland
The Organisation Astronomy in Poland Marek Sarna1 Figure 1. Mikołaj Kazimierz Stępień2 Kopernik pictured in his Frombork observatory. From the painting by Jan Matejko (1838–89). 1 Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland 2 Warsaw University Observatory, Poland Polish post-war astronomy was built virtually from nothing. Currently, about 250 astronomers are employed in seven academic institutes and a few smaller units across Poland. Broad areas of astrophysics are covered and the level of astronomical research in Poland is higher than the world average. Joining ESO has created an atmosphere that Gorgolewski (in radio astronomy), liant Polish scientists decided to stay for is conducive to further improvements in Stanisław Grzędzielski (interstellar and good at different western academic the quality of Polish research, and it interplanetary matter), Jan Hanasz institutions. Nonetheless, most of them marks an important step towards the full (radio astronomy, space research), Jerzy preserved close ties with their Polish integration of Polish astronomers into Jakimiec (in the field of Solar flares), colleagues, e.g., by inviting them to visit the international scientific community. Tadeusz Jarzębowski (photometry of vari- abroad and carrying out collaborative able stars), Andrzej Kruszewski (polarisa- research or providing support for scien- tion of starlight, variable stars and extra- tific libraries. As soon as Poland achieved Poland is a country with a long astronomi- galactic astronomy), Wojciech Krzemiński independence, the older emigrant astron- cal tradition: Mikołaj Kopernik (Nicolaus (variable stars), Jan Kubikowski (stellar omers frequently began to visit Poland Copernicus, 1473–1543) with his great atmospheres), Józef Masłowski (radio for both shorter and longer stays. -
L. Maligranda REVIEW of the BOOK by MARIUSZ URBANEK
Математичнi Студiї. Т.50, №1 Matematychni Studii. V.50, No.1 УДК 51 L. Maligranda REVIEW OF THE BOOK BY MARIUSZ URBANEK, “GENIALNI – LWOWSKA SZKOL A MATEMATYCZNA” (POLISH) [GENIUSES – THE LVOV SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS] L. Maligranda. Review of the book by Mariusz Urbanek, “Genialni – Lwowska Szko la Matema- tyczna” (Polish) [Geniuses – the Lvov school of mathematics], Wydawnictwo Iskry, Warsaw 2014, 283 pp. ISBN: 978-83-244-0381-3 , Mat. Stud. 50 (2018), 105–112. This review is an extended version of my short review of Urbanek's book that was published in MathSciNet. Here it is written about his book in greater detail, which was not possible in the short review. I will present facts described in the book as well as some false information there. My short review of Urbanek’s book was published in MathSciNet [24]. Here I write about his book in greater detail. Mariusz Urbanek, writer and journalist, author of many books devoted to poets, politicians and other figures of public life, decided to delve also in the world of mathematicians. He has written a book on the phenomenon in the history of Polish science called the Lvov School of Mathematics. Let us add that at the same time there were also the Warsaw School of Mathematics and the Krakow School of Mathematics, and the three formed together the Polish School of Mathematics. The Lvov School of Mathematics was a group of mathematicians in the Polish city of Lvov (Lw´ow,in Polish; now the city is in Ukraine) in the period 1920–1945 under the leadership of Stefan Banach and Hugo Steinhaus, who worked together and often came to the Scottish Caf´e (Kawiarnia Szkocka) to discuss mathematical problems. -
Arxiv:1603.03361V3 [Math.GN] 18 May 2016 Eeecs R O Eddfrtermidro Hspaper
PRODUCTS OF MENGER SPACES: A COMBINATORIAL APPROACH PIOTR SZEWCZAK AND BOAZ TSABAN Abstract. We construct Menger subsets of the real line whose product is not Menger in the plane. In contrast to earlier constructions, our approach is purely combinatorial. The set theoretic hypothesis used in our construction is far milder than earlier ones, and holds in all but the most exotic models of real set theory. On the other hand, we establish pro- ductive properties for versions of Menger’s property parameterized by filters and semifilters. In particular, the Continuum Hypothesis implies that every productively Menger set of real numbers is productively Hurewicz, and each ultrafilter version of Menger’s property is strictly between Menger’s and Hurewicz’s classic properties. We include a number of open problems emerging from this study. 1. Introduction A topological space X is Menger if for each sequence U1, U2,... of open covers of the space X, there are finite subsets F1 ⊆ U1, F2 ⊆ U2, . whose union forms a cover of the space X. This property was introduced by Karl Menger [17], and reformulated as presented here by Witold Hurewicz [11]. Menger’s property is strictly between σ-compact and Lindelöf. Now a central notion in topology, it has applications in a number of branches of topology and set theory. The undefined notions in the following example, which are available in the indicated references, are not needed for the remainder of this paper. Example 1.1. Menger spaces form the most general class for which a positive solution of arXiv:1603.03361v3 [math.GN] 18 May 2016 the D-space problem is known [2, Corolarry 2.7], and the most general class for which a general form of Hindman’s Finite Sums Theorem holds [25]. -
My Dear Colleague! [1/2] Thank You for the Cards and Congratulations
Ithaca, N.Y. 6.I.1940 [1/1] My Dear Colleague! [1/2] Thank you for the cards and congratulations. I [1/3] have not written you in for a long while because I did not receive [1/4] any answers to two letters [1/5] and I did not know what that meant. To Bloch [1/6] I wrote often and without results. I even had [1/7] the impression that he went back to Poland. [1/8] With me everything is in the best order. [1/9] I have familiarized myself with the regulations [1/10] and shortly I will begin applying for a non-quota visa. [1/11] I was told by the National Refugee Service that the matter is [1/12] easy. I only have to sign a few papers, [1/13] but that usually takes a while. [1/14] My parents sent me news that they are alive [1/15] and healthy. They are in the Russian portion. In Warsaw and [1/16] in the German part in general there are supposedly [1/17] some horrific things happening. [1/18] I have nothing from Steinhaus. Zygmund1 will probably [1/19] arrive at M.I.T. for next [1/20] semester. I was told2 that Marcinkiewicz and Kaczmarz3 [1/21] were shot because they were officers.4 [2/1] All of it is monstrous and sometimes5 I just don’t want to [2/2] think about it. [2/3] I hope that you are doing well [2/4] and that you are satisfied like I am. -
L. Maligranda REVIEW of the BOOK by ROMAN
Математичнi Студiї. Т.46, №2 Matematychni Studii. V.46, No.2 УДК 51 L. Maligranda REVIEW OF THE BOOK BY ROMAN DUDA, “PEARLS FROM A LOST CITY. THE LVOV SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS” L. Maligranda. Review of the book by Roman Duda, “Pearls from a lost city. The Lvov school of mathematics”, Mat. Stud. 46 (2016), 203–216. This review is an extended version of my two short reviews of Duda's book that were published in MathSciNet and Mathematical Intelligencer. Here it is written about the Lvov School of Mathematics in greater detail, which I could not do in the short reviews. There are facts described in the book as well as some information the books lacks as, for instance, the information about the planned print in Mathematical Monographs of the second volume of Banach's book and also books by Mazur, Schauder and Tarski. My two short reviews of Duda’s book were published in MathSciNet [16] and Mathematical Intelligencer [17]. Here I write about the Lvov School of Mathematics in greater detail, which was not possible in the short reviews. I will present the facts described in the book as well as some information the books lacks as, for instance, the information about the planned print in Mathematical Monographs of the second volume of Banach’s book and also books by Mazur, Schauder and Tarski. So let us start with a discussion about Duda’s book. In 1795 Poland was partioned among Austria, Russia and Prussia (Germany was not yet unified) and at the end of 1918 Poland became an independent country. -
L. Maligranda REVIEW of the BOOK BY
Математичнi Студiї. Т.50, №1 Matematychni Studii. V.50, No.1 УДК 51 L. Maligranda REVIEW OF THE BOOK BY MARIUSZ URBANEK, “GENIALNI – LWOWSKA SZKOL A MATEMATYCZNA” (POLISH) [GENIUSES – THE LVOV SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS] L. Maligranda. Review of the book by Mariusz Urbanek, “Genialni – Lwowska Szko la Matema- tyczna” (Polish) [Geniuses – the Lvov school of mathematics], Wydawnictwo Iskry, Warsaw 2014, 283 pp. ISBN: 978-83-244-0381-3 , Mat. Stud. 50 (2018), 105–112. This review is an extended version of my short review of Urbanek's book that was published in MathSciNet. Here it is written about his book in greater detail, which was not possible in the short review. I will present facts described in the book as well as some false information there. My short review of Urbanek’s book was published in MathSciNet [24]. Here I write about his book in greater detail. Mariusz Urbanek, writer and journalist, author of many books devoted to poets, politicians and other figures of public life, decided to delve also in the world of mathematicians. He has written a book on the phenomenon in the history of Polish science called the Lvov School of Mathematics. Let us add that at the same time there were also the Warsaw School of Mathematics and the Krakow School of Mathematics, and the three formed together the Polish School of Mathematics. The Lvov School of Mathematics was a group of mathematicians in the Polish city of Lvov (Lw´ow,in Polish; now the city is in Ukraine) in the period 1920–1945 under the leadership of Stefan Banach and Hugo Steinhaus, who worked together and often came to the Scottish Caf´e (Kawiarnia Szkocka) to discuss mathematical problems. -
Polish Mathematicians and Mathematics in World War I. Part I: Galicia (Austro-Hungarian Empire)
Science in Poland Stanisław Domoradzki ORCID 0000-0002-6511-0812 Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Rzeszów (Rzeszów, Poland) [email protected] Małgorzata Stawiska ORCID 0000-0001-5704-7270 Mathematical Reviews (Ann Arbor, USA) [email protected] Polish mathematicians and mathematics in World War I. Part I: Galicia (Austro-Hungarian Empire) Abstract In this article we present diverse experiences of Polish math- ematicians (in a broad sense) who during World War I fought for freedom of their homeland or conducted their research and teaching in difficult wartime circumstances. We discuss not only individual fates, but also organizational efforts of many kinds (teaching at the academic level outside traditional institutions, Polish scientific societies, publishing activities) in order to illus- trate the formation of modern Polish mathematical community. PUBLICATION e-ISSN 2543-702X INFO ISSN 2451-3202 DIAMOND OPEN ACCESS CITATION Domoradzki, Stanisław; Stawiska, Małgorzata 2018: Polish mathematicians and mathematics in World War I. Part I: Galicia (Austro-Hungarian Empire. Studia Historiae Scientiarum 17, pp. 23–49. Available online: https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.18.003.9323. ARCHIVE RECEIVED: 2.02.2018 LICENSE POLICY ACCEPTED: 22.10.2018 Green SHERPA / PUBLISHED ONLINE: 12.12.2018 RoMEO Colour WWW http://www.ejournals.eu/sj/index.php/SHS/; http://pau.krakow.pl/Studia-Historiae-Scientiarum/ Stanisław Domoradzki, Małgorzata Stawiska Polish mathematicians and mathematics in World War I ... In Part I we focus on mathematicians affiliated with the ex- isting Polish institutions of higher education: Universities in Lwów in Kraków and the Polytechnical School in Lwów, within the Austro-Hungarian empire. -
European Revivals from Dreams of a Nation to Places of Transnational Exchange
European Revivals From Dreams of a Nation to Places of Transnational Exchange EUROPEAN REVIVALS From Dreams of a Nation to Places of Transnational Exchange FNG Research 1/2020 Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Illustration for the novel, Seven Brothers, by Aleksis Kivi, 1907, watercolour and pencil, 23.5cm x 31.5cm. Ahlström Collection, Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Aaltonen European Revivals From Dreams of a Nation to Places of Transnational Exchange European Revivals From Dreams of a Nation to Places of Transnational Exchange European Revivals. From Dreams of a Nation to Places of Transnational Exchange FNG Research 1/2020 Publisher Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki Editors-in-Chief Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff and Riitta Ojanperä Editor Hanna-Leena Paloposki Language Revision Gill Crabbe Graphic Design Lagarto / Jaana Jäntti and Arto Tenkanen Printing Nord Print Oy, Helsinki, 2020 Copyright Authors and the Finnish National Gallery Web magazine and web publication https://research.fng.fi/ ISBN 978-952-7371-08-4 (paperback) ISBN 978-952-7371-09-1 (pdf) ISSN 2343-0850 (FNG Research) Table of Contents Foreword .................................................................................................. vii ANNA-MARIA VON BONSDORFF AND RIITTA OJANPERÄ VISIONS OF IDENTITY, DREAMS OF A NATION Ossian, Kalevala and Visual Art: a Scottish Perspective ........................... 3 MURDO MACDONALD Nationality and Community in Norwegian Art Criticism around 1900 .................................................. 23 TORE KIRKHOLT Celticism, Internationalism and Scottish Identity: Three Key Images in Focus ...................................................................... 49 FRANCES FOWLE Listening to the Voices: Joan of Arc as a Spirit-Medium in the Celtic Revival .............................. 65 MICHELLE FOOT ARTISTS’ PLACES, LOCATION AND MEANING Inventing Folk Art: Artists’ Colonies in Eastern Europe and their Legacy ............................. -
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XXV SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT SYMPOSIUM “East and West the Common European Heritage” Jagiellonian University Museum Krakow, Poland 10 -14 September 2006 ISBN 83-921397-7-1 Druk: Poligrafia Inspektoratu Towarzystwa Salezjańskiego ul. Konfederacka 6, 30-306 Kraków XXV Scientific Instrument Symposium organised by: Scientific Instrument Commission International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science Division of History of Science http://www.sic.iuhps.org/ Jagiellonian University Museum Department of the History of Science and Scientific Instruments http://www3.uj.edu.pl/Muzeum/index.en.html Local Organising Committee: Prof. Stanisław Waltoś - Director of the Jagiellonian University Museum Ewa Wyka Małgorzata Taborska Maciej Kluza Anna Karolina Zawada Funding for the XXV Scientific Instrument Symposium was provided in part by: - Rector of the Jagiellonian University - International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science Division of History of Science - Scientific Instrument Commission Gaudeamus igitur Gaudeamus igitur While we're young, let us rejoice, Juvenes dum sumus Singing out in gleeful tones, Post jucundum juventutem After youth's delightful frolic, Post molestam senectutem And old age (so melancholic!), Nos habebit humus. Earth will cover our bones. Vivat academia Long live our academy, Vivant professores Teachers whom we cherish, Vivat membrum quodlibet Long live all the graduates, Vivat membra quaelibet And the undergraduates; Semper sint in flore. Ever may they flourish. vers. C. W. Kindeleben, 1781 Tr. J. Mark Sugars, 1997 5 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Gaudeamus igitur.....................................................................5 2. List of Participants ...................................................................9 3. Session I: East-West – Cooperation, Competition and Trade................................................................................23 4. Session II: Shot at Noon - Aspects of Artillery Instruments from Early Modern Europe ....................................................35 5. -
Public Administration and Security Studies 2018 Nr 5
Studia Administracji i Bezpieczeństwa Public Administration and Security Studies 2018 nr 5 Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii im. Jakuba z Paradyża w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim Gorzów Wielkopolski 2018 Honorowy patronat – Rektor Akademii im. Jakuba z Paradyża prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Skorupska ‑Raczyńska Redakcja prof. dr hab. Bogusław Jagusiak (redaktor naczelny), dr Anna Chabasińska (zastępca redaktora naczelnego), mgr Joanna Lubimow (sekretarz) Rada naukowa Członkowie: Członkowie goście: prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Czachór prof. Veysel Dinler prof. dr hab. Janusz Faryś prof. dr hab. Franciszek Gołembski prof. dr hab. Grzegorz Kucharczyk prof. Cristina Hermida del Llano prof. AJP dr hab. Paweł Leszczyński prof. dr hab. Ryszard Ławniczak prof. AJP dr hab. Jerzy Rossa prof. dr hab. Piotr Mickiewicz dr hab. prof. nadzw. Joachim von Wedel prof. Olegas Prentkovskis dr Jacek Jaśkiewicz prof. Miruna Tudorascu dr Robert Maciejczyk prof. dr hab. Wołodymar Welykoczyj dr Katarzyna Samulska prof. dr hab. Wojciech Włodarkiewicz dr Aleksandra Szczerba‑Zawada prof. dr hab. Marek Żmigrodzki dr Andrzej Skwarski dr hab. prof. UG Tadeusz Dmochowski dr Piotr Lizakowski dr hab. prof. WAT Adam Kołodziejczyk dr hab. prof. WAT Piotr Kwiatkiewicz dr hab. prof. UG Jarosław Nicoń dr hab. inż. prof. WAT Gabriel Nowacki dr hab. inż. prof. WAT Janusz Rybiński prof. nadzw. UŁ dr hab. Tomasz Tulejski dr hab. prof. WAT Jerzy Zalewski dr hab. Marek Ilnicki kmdr. dr hab. Grzegorz Krasnodębski kmdr. dr hab. Jarosław Teska Recenzent dr hab. Jerzy Stańczyk dr hab. Tomasz Kamiński Korekta językowa: Joanna Rychter Skład: Agata Libelt Projekt okładki: Jacek Lauda © Copyright by Akademia im. Jakuba z Paradyża w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim 2018 Redakcja informuje, że pierwotną wersją czasopisma jest wydanie papierowe. -
Samuel Fogelson (1902 – Po 1941) Streszczenie
ANTIQUITATES MATHEMATICAE Vol. 10(1) 2016, p. 19–43 doi: 10.14708/am.v10i0.1549 Lech Maligranda (Lule˚a) Walerian Piotrowski (Warszawa) Samuel Fogelson (1902 – po 1941) Streszczenie. Samuel Fogelson to zapomniany w Polsce matematyk i statystyk warszawski oraz agent wywiadu sowieckiego. Brak o nim wzmianki w Słowniku Biograficznym Matematyków Polskich (2003) i w Polskim Słowniku Biograficznym; jest informacja w Wikipedii [3], ale opisana została tam głównie jego działalność szpiegowska, przed- stawiona w artykułach A. Poczobuta [6]–[8]. My chcemy przybliżyć osobę Fogelsona jako matematyka i statystyka warszawskiego, który opublikował wiele prac, zwłaszcza ze statystyki opisowej. Staraliśmy się dotrzeć do jego publikacji i osiągnięć w matematyce i statystyce. Wspomnimy też krótko o jego działalności szpiegowskiej na rzecz pań- stwa sowieckiego. 2010 Klasyfikacja tematyczna AMS (2010): 01A72; 01A60. Słowa kluczowe: matematyka dwudziestego wieku, matematycy w Eu- ropie, polska matematyka. 1. Biografia Fogelsona. Samuel Fogelson [Fogielson, Fogel- sohn, Fogielsohn], pseudonim „St. Manert”, urodził się 20 paździer- nika 1902 roku w Warszawie w rodzinie Moszka Fogielsona i Chai-Sary z domu Halbrajch. Nauki początkowe otrzymał w domu, a w 1912 roku wstąpił do siedmioklasowej Szkoły Handlowej Zgromadzenia Kup- ców miasta Warszawy („Handlówki”). W 1915 roku otrzymał pro- mocję do czwartej klasy i wraz z rodzicami wyjechał do Rosji, gdzie w 1918 roku ukończył ośmioklasową szkołę handlową w Rostowie nad Donem. W tym samym roku wstąpił jako słuchacz rzeczywisty na Wy- dział Matematyczno-Fizyczny Uniwersytetu Dońskiego (były rosyjski Uniwersytet Warszawski, ewakuowany został w 1915 roku do Rostowa nad Donem). W 1920 roku wraz z rodzicami powrócił do Warszawy i zapisał się na Wydział Przyrodniczo-Matematyczny Wolnej Wszechnicy Polskiej (WWP).