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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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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English Polish |
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Cham :
Birkhäuser,
2015.
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Series: | Vita mathematica ;
v. 18. |
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1 online resource (xv, 491 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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Online Access: | SpringerLink - Click here for access |
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.