Andrzej Hulanicki

Andrzej Hulanicki

Andrzej Hulanicki (born December 25, 1933 in Poznan , † March 23, 2008 in Wroclaw ) was a Polish mathematician .

Shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939, Andrzej Hulanicki's father got a job in Baniocha near Warsaw , where he and his mother survived the war. His father was arrested by the Germans for illegally manufacturing machine parts and taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where he was killed. In 1946 his mother moved with him to Breslau , where he graduated from high school and studied mathematics until 1955. He received his doctorate in 1960 under Stanisław Hartman at the Polish Academy of Sciences , where he completed his habilitation three years later. He was awarded the title of professor in 1969.

Hulanicki was employed at the University of Breslau , with two interruptions as an employee of the academy. From 1968 to 1981 he headed the Wroclaw branch of the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, of which he became a member in 1991. Since 1972 he has organized regular conferences. In 1986 he held the Ulam chair at the University of Colorado at Boulder and in 2002 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Orléans .

Hulanicki's main area of ​​work was harmonic analysis . He characterized groups that allow a compact group structure ; His main result was the realization that precisely for the indirect groups all irreducible representations are contained in the left-regular representation .

Web links

• Literature by and about Andrzej Hulanicki in the bibliographic database WorldCat .
• Hulanicki, Andrzej at: Polish personal database.
• Andrzej Hulanicki's biographical note at Corell University Library (English).
• Obituary (PDF file; 98 kB) in Studia Mathematica , Volume 189 (2) (2008)