Stanislaw Hartman

Photo on the memorial plaque in Wroclaw, Grunwaldzki 2/4

Stanisław Hartman (born August 2, 1914 in Warsaw , † November 11, 1992 in Wroclaw ) was a Polish mathematician .

Life

Hartman was born the son of a lawyer. He studied in Warsaw from 1932 to 1937, with Kazimierz Kuratowski , Stefan Mazurkiewicz and Wacław Sierpiński , among others , and continued his studies in Lviv from 1939 to 1941. He was captured there by the National Socialists.

After the war he first went to Kraków and in 1947 to Wrocław (German: Breslau), where he received his doctorate in the same year under Hugo Steinhaus . This was followed by the habilitation in 1951, the appointment as associate professor in 1951 and as full professor in 1961. Hartman was dismissed in 1968 after supporting student protests, from then on worked at the mathematical research institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences and was also involved in the democratic opposition. He was reinstated in Wroclaw in 1981, where he stayed until his retirement in 1984.

Hartman's fields of work were harmonic analysis , algebra , number theory , topology and analysis . He was the editor of the magazine Colloquium Mathematicum , joined the editorial committee in 1957, was editor since 1970 and editor-in-chief since 1977, and in 1987 he was made honorary editor.

Stanisław Hartman was awarded the Stefan Banach Prize in 1953 . In 1962 he gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( Some problems in the algebra of Borel measures ).

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• Obituary in Colloq. Math. 64 (1993), 1–2, also available online here (French; PDF; 30 kB)

Web links

• Autobiography, French, Cahiers Hist. Math. 1986 , errata to it