Wladyslaw Orlicz
Władysław Roman Orlicz (born May 24, 1903 in Okocim , † August 9, 1990 in Poznan ) was a Polish mathematician from the Lviv Mathematician School . The focus of his work was the topology .
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He was the third of Franciszek and Maria Orlicz's five children. The youngest brother died in the Polish-Soviet War , the oldest was killed in the Stutthof concentration camp . The other brothers also became professors.
The family moved several times. Władysław Orlicz attended school in Tarnów , Znojmo and Lviv , where he finished school in 1920 and began studying mathematics at the Lviv Polytechnic University . He studied with Hugo Steinhaus , Antoni Łomnicki and Stanisław Ruziewicz , among others . As early as 1923 he took on small tasks at the Faculty of Mathematics. On August 1, 1925, he became a junior assistant at the Johann Casimir University in Lemberg. He published his first scientific work as early as 1926. He completed his dissertation on the theory of orthogonal sequences in 1928. In 1929 he went to Göttingen on a scholarship and returned to Lemberg in 1930 as a senior assistant. In 1934 he presented his habilitation thesis The Investigations of Orthogonal Systems . In the following year he became an assistant professor at the Polytechnic University of Lviv and received the license to teach at the Johann Casimir University. Finally, in 1937, he became an associate professor at the University of Poznan .
He was surprised by the outbreak of World War II while on vacation in Lviv. Since he could not return to Poznan, he was appointed professor in Lemberg. Officially he worked as a teacher. When it became clear in early 1945 that Lviv would no longer belong to Poland, Władysław Orlicz went back to Poznan. In 1948 he was appointed full professor at the University of Poznan, where he stayed until his retirement in 1970. Orlicz was awarded the Stefan Banach Prize in 1948 .
See also
- Orlicz room (also pear tree Orlicz room)
- Orlicz-Sobolev room
- Orlicz-Pettis theorem
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Władysław Orlicz. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- A biography of Władysław Orlicz (Polish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Orlicz, Wladyslaw |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Orlicz, Władysław Roman (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 24, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Okocim |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1990 |
| Place of death | Poses |