Kazimierz Żorawski
Kazimierz Żorawski or Kazimierz Żórawski (born June 22, 1866 in Szczuki near Ciechanów ; † January 23, 1953 ) was a Polish mathematician at the Cracow School of Mathematicians . He worked on Lie groups , differential geometry and fluid mechanics .
Life
Kazimierz Żorawski studied mathematics from 1884 to 1888 at the University of Warsaw ( Imperial University Warsaw ) with Russian as the language of instruction. Later (from 1888 to 1892) Żorawski studied in Paris, Göttingen and Leipzig. In 1891 he received his doctorate at the University of Leipzig under M. Sophius Lie . In the years 1892–1895 he was a professor at the Technical Academy in Lemberg. In 1895 he became professor and from 1917 to 1918 prorector at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He was also a member of the Academy of Scholarship(later Polish Academy of Learning) in Cracow from 1900. In 1919 he became Professor of Mathematics at the Technical University of Warsaw and the Warsaw University. In 1920 Żorawski became a member of the Warsaw Science Society , of which he was President from 1926 to 1931. In 1952 he was appointed to the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order Polonia Restituta .
As a student, Żorawski was acquainted with Maria Skłodowska - later Marie Curie - who was governess on his parents' estate for three and a half years from the end of 1885 . However, they were opposed to their son's plans to marry Maria. In the spring of 1889, Skłodowska's work with the Żorawski family ended. She initially took a position as a private tutor elsewhere and moved to Paris to study in 1891 .
Web links
- Żorawski's biography (Polish and French)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Żorawski, Kazimierz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Żórawski, Kazimierz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczuki |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 1953 |