Maryam Vulis
PASHOM
Thursday, January 21, 2021 6:30 pm EST
Online Event
The January meeting of PASHOM will take place on Thursday, January 21, 6:30 p.m., when Ms. Maryam Vulis will speak on:
Polish Mathematical School: Zygmunt Janiszewski (1888 -1920) The Polish mathematician Zygmunt Janiszewski made important mathematical contributions during his life cut short by the 1918 influenza pandemic. Janiszewski studied mathematics in Europe and after defending his dissertation Sur les continus irréductibles entre deux points (1911) under Lebesgue’s supervision, continued visiting mathematical centers in Europe and attending conferences. Consequently, his meeting with the Lwow mathematicians Józef Puzyna and Waclaw Sierpinski at the Congress of Polish Scientists and Physicians in Krakow brought Janiszewski to Lwow where he obtained his habilitation in 1913. WWI, however, interrupted his plans of becoming a professor at the Lwow University and Janiszewski joined the Polish Legion to fight in the war. During the war years he came back to Lwow to substitute for Sierpinski, but was not able to stay due to political reasons. Zygmunt Janiszewski went on to become a professor at the University of Warsaw, even one of the Mathematics Chairs. Janiszewski continued his research working alongside with Stefan Mazurkiewicz and Waclaw Sierpinski. Zygmundt Janiszewski published several important articles in pure mathematics and is considered to be one the founders of the Polish Mathematics School. Janiszewski was instrumental in setting the direction of Polish mathematics at the time and establishing the journal “Fundamenta Mathematicae” based on the novel idea of the journal devoted to a single mathematical field. One cannot talk about Zygmunt Janiszewski without adding that he was a Polish patriot and a humanitarian whose liberal views were not easily shared by his colleagues. The mathematician did not survive the 1918 influenza pandemic and died in Lwow on January 3, 1920.
Topic: History of Mathematics
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