Stefan Schwarz (mathematician)

Stefan Schwarz (born May 18, 1914 in Nové Mesto nad Váhom , † December 6, 1996 in Bratislava ) was a Slovak mathematician.

Schwarz studied from 1932 at the Charles University in Prague and received his doctorate in 1937 under Karel Petr with a dissertation on the reducibility of polynomials over finite fields. He taught at the Technical University in Bratislava. In 1944 he published a treatise on semigroups. In the same year he was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and was in Buchenwald at the end of the war. Two of his sisters died in concentration camps. After returning to Czechoslovakia, he taught again in Bratislava, where he became a professor at the Technical University in 1947. From 1966 to 1987 he was director of the Mathematical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. In 1982 he retired from the Technical University of Bratislava.

He dealt with algebra (finite fields, semigroups) with applications in number theory, non-negative and Boolean matrices.

He organized the first international conference on semigroups in 1968 and was founding editor of the magazine Semigroup Forum in 1970 . In 1950 he was also the founding editor of the Mathematical-Physical Journal of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (Mathematica Slovaca from 1990) and was the editor of the Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal from 1945 . He continued both editorships until the 1990s.

In 1952 he became a member of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and in 1953 the Slovak Academy of Sciences, of which he was president from 1965 to 1970. In 1980 he received the National Prize of the Slovak Socialist Republic.

Web links

• John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson :  Stefan Schwarz (mathematician). In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stefan Schwarz in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)