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Stefan Banach

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Polish mathematician (1892–1945)

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Stefan Banach (1892–1945) was a Polish mathematician and university teacher. Born in Kraków, he worked in Lviv, where he served as an employee of Lviv University and Lviv Polytechnic. His academic fields included mathematics, functional analysis, topology, and Banach space theory. He held a Doctor of Philosophy degree, having studied under Hugo Steinhaus and Kazimierz Twardowski, and later supervised doctoral student Stanisław Mazur.

Banach was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning, the Polish Mathematical Society, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and the Warsaw Scientific Society. He spoke Polish and French. His published works include *Thʹeorie des opʹeration linʹeaires*, *Teorja operacyj*, and *Mechanika*. He died of lung cancer in Lviv and is buried in Lychakiv Cemetery.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1892
Died
1945
Works
18

Top works

  • Thʹeorie des opʹeration linʹeaires
  • Differentialʹnoe i integralʹnoe ischislenie. Per. s polʹskogo i red
  • Teorja operacyj
  • Przemiany dziejowe otoczenia wawelu, zarys dziejów, stan obecny, przeglad zabytków, materiały ikonograficzne
  • Mechanika

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Poland
Active from
1965-03-05

Discography

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Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A consistent and accurate<i>ab initio</i>parametrization of density functional dispersion correction (DFT-D) for the 94 elements H-Pu

    · 2010 · cited 56,883x

  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,474x

  3. Semiempirical GGA‐type density functional constructed with a long‐range dispersion correction

    · 2006 · cited 29,929x

  4. Effect of the damping function in dispersion corrected density functional theory

    · 2011 · cited 26,554x

  5. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

    · 2019 · cited 20,871x

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Quotes

  • “A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories. One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Stefan Banach (Polish: [ˈstɛfan ˈbanax] ; 30 March 1892 – 31 August 1945) was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the 20th century's most important and influential mathematicians. He was one of the founder of modern functional analysis, and an original member of the Lwów School of Mathematics. His major work was the 1932 book, Théorie des opérations linéaires (Theory of Linear Operations), the first monograph on the general theory of functional analysis.

Born in Kraków to a family of Goral descent, Banach showed a keen interest in mathematics and engaged in solving mathematical problems during school recess. After completing his secondary education, he befriended Hugo Steinhaus, with whom he established the Polish Mathematical Society in 1919 and later published the scientific journal Studia Mathematica. In 1920, he received an assistantship at the Lwów Polytechnic, subsequently becoming a professor in 1922 and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning in 1924. Banach was also a co-founder of the Lwów School of Mathematics, a school of thought comprising some of the most renowned Polish mathematicians of the interwar period (1918–1939).

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