Stefan Kaczmarz
Stefan Kaczmarz (born March 20, 1895 in Sambir ; † September 1939 near Umiastów near Warsaw ) was a Polish mathematician , author a. a. the Kaczmarz method and one of the leading representatives of the Lviv school of mathematicians .
Kaczmarz graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 1922. From 1923 he was an assistant at the Technical University of Lemberg , on the recommendation of Stefan Banach . In 1924 he received his doctorate under Stanisław Ruziewicz at the University of Lemberg and in 1928 he also received his habilitation there.
After the German invasion of Poland, Kaczmarz was drafted as a lieutenant in the reserve and fell in September 1939. According to another version, he was arrested by the Soviet NKVD at the end of the German-Soviet conquest and murdered in the 1940 Katyn massacre .
swell
- Parks, PC: S. Kaczmarz (1895-1939) . International Journal of Control, Volume 57, Issue 6, pp. 1263-1267, 1993.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Kaczmarz in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Web links
- Literature by and about Stefan Kaczmarz in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaczmarz, Stefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 20, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sambir |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1939 |
| Place of death | near Umiastów, Warsaw |