Stanislaw Saks
Stanisław Saks (born December 30, 1897 in Kalisz , † November 23, 1942 in Warsaw ) was a Polish mathematician from the Lviv Mathematician School and a victim of the Holocaust .
Life
Saks studied mathematics at Warsaw University and received his doctorate summa cum laude with Stefan Mazurkiewicz's dissertation A Contribution to the Topology of Surfaces and of Plane Regions in 1922 . His main field of work was analysis , in particular the then emerging methods of set theory and topology . After a stay in the USA from 1931 to 1932, mainly at Brown University , he became a lecturer at the Technical University of Warsaw and later at the Universities of Lwów and Vilnius . In Lemberg he also signed the Scottish Book of the Lemberg School of Mathematicians.
After the Germans marched into Lwów in June 1941 and began to systematically murder the Jews , Saks fled to Warsaw. There he was arrested and shot by the Gestapo on November 23, 1942 .
The Vitali-Hahn-Saks theorem and the Banach-Saks property are associated with his name.
literature
- Antoni Zygmund: Stanislaw Saks (1897-1942), Mathematical Intelligencer, Volume 9, 1987, Issue 1, 36-41
- P. Wojtaszczyk: The work of Saks in functional analysis, Mathematical Intelligencer, Volume 9, 1987, Issue 1, 41-43
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Stanisław Saks. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Saks, Stanislaw |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kalisz |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1942 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |