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Mathematician for All Seasons Recollections and Notes Vol. 1 (1887-1945) /

This book presents, in his own words, the life of Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1972), noted Polish mathematician of Jewish background, educator, and mathematical popularizer. A student of Hilbert, a pioneer of the foundations of probability and game theory, and a contributor to the development of functional...

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Main Author: Steinhaus, Hugo. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Burns, Robert G. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Szymaniec, Irena. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Weron, Aleksander. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Vita Mathematica, 18
Subjects:
Mathematics.
History.
History of Mathematical Sciences.
History, general.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21984-4
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword to the first Polish edition
  • Introduction to the English edition
  • Part I: Jaslo
  • The Gymnasium
  • In the capital Lwów
  • Göttingen
  • The return home
  • The life of a private scholar
  • Part II: In the university town Lwów
  • The first occupation
  • Interlude: Flashes of memory
  • The second occupation
  • Homeless wandering
  • Osiczyna
  • Interlude: Flashes of memory
  • Stróze
  • Diary entries
  • A flash of memory
  • Diary entries (continued)
  • Between Kraków and Wroclaw
  • Wroclaw
  • A taste of America
  • Wroclaw again
  • America again
  • Home again
  • Index of names.

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