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Mathematician for All Seasons - Recollections and Notes, Vol. 2 (1945-1968) (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Mathematician for All Seasons - Recollections and Notes, Vol. 2 (1945-1968) (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Vita Mathematica, 19
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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 analysis, he was one
of those instrumental to the extraordinary flowering of Polish
mathematics before and after World War I. In particular, it was he
who "discovered" the great Stefan Banach. Exhibiting his great
integrity and wit, Steinhaus's personal story of the turbulent
times he survived - including two world wars and life postwar under
the Soviet heel - cannot but be of consuming interest. His
recounting of the fearful years spent evading Nazi terror is
especially moving. The steadfast honesty and natural dignity he
maintained while pursuing a life of demanding scientific and
intellectual enquiry in the face of encroaching calamity and chaos
show him to be truly a mathematician for all seasons. The present
work will be of great interest not only to mathematicians wanting
to learn some of the details of the mathematical blossoming that
occurred in Poland in the first half of the 20th century, but also
to anyone wishing to read a first-hand account of the history of
those unquiet times in Europe - and indeed world-wide - by someone
of uncommon intelligence and forthrightness situated near an eye of
the storm.
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