Stanisław Krystyn Zaremba

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Stanisław Krystyn Zaremba (born August 15, 1903 in Krakow , † January 14, 1990 in Aberystwyth , Wales ) was a Polish mathematician and mountaineer.

Life

Zaremba was the son of the mathematician Stanisław Zaremba and studied mathematics from 1921 at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and from 1924 to 1926 in Paris. After completing his studies, he was an assistant at Vilnius University and from 1936 professor at Jagiellonian University. With the outbreak of World War II, he came to Dushanbe in Tajikistan in 1940 , where he was a lecturer. From 1942 to 1946 he was a soldier in the Polish army in exile in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon. From 1946 to 1952 and - interrupted by a time as an industrial mathematician - from 1958 to 1976 he was again professor in Beirut, London (Polish University College), Madison in Wisconsin, in Quebec and at the University of Wales, where he last lived.

In 1981 he was visiting professor in Krakow. A presumption of Zaremba on continued fractions was in 2011 Jean Bourgain and Alex Kontorovich proven. He published the book Proof Theory (2 volumes, 1925, 1929) by his Kraków teacher Ivan Śleszyński (1854–1931) and dealt with differential equations, among other things.

As a mountaineer he made many first ascents in the Tatra Mountains and climbed in the Alps, Pyrenees, Lebanon, Iran, Wales and Tajikistan. He was one of the most active Polish climbers from 1925 to 1937.

He was editor of the mountaineering magazine Taternik and honorary member of the Polish mountaineering association.

In 1954 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam (Spacing problems in Abelian groups).

Works

  • SK Zaremba (Ed.): Applications of Number Theory to Numerical Analysis . Academic Press, New York and London, 1972

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In an aircraft company in Wolverhampton, according to information from the ICM 1954 in Amsterdam
personal data
SURNAME Zaremba, Stanisław Krystyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish mathematician and mountaineer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Krakow
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1990
Place of death Aberystwyth , Wales