Jan Mycielski
Jan Mycielski (born February 7, 1932 in Wiśniowa , Poland ) is a Polish -American mathematician .
Life
Mycielski received his doctorate in 1957 at the University of Wroclaw under Stanisław Hartman ( application of free groups to geometric constructions ). He then worked as a scientist at the CNRS in Paris in 1957/58 , from 1958 to 1963 at the Institute for Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 1961/62 as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley , and in 1967 visiting professor at Case Western Reserve University , before he became a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1969 . At the same time he was appointed professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1968. He is now Professor Emeritus in Boulder. He was visiting scholar and visiting professor at IHES , Los Alamos National Laboratory , University of Warsaw and the University of Hawaii.
He deals with many areas of mathematics, including graph theory , algebra , game theory, topology of three-dimensional manifolds, set theory, mathematical logic, philosophy of mathematics.
In 1959 he married Emilia Przezdziecka. He has been a US citizen since 1975. In 1965 Jan Mycielski was awarded the Stefan Banach Prize . Since 1984 he has been editor of Fundamenta Mathematicae and since 1971 of Algebra Universalis. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mycielski, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 7, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wiśniowa |