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020			_a9783319219837
082			_a510.92 STE
100			_aSteinhaus, Hugo
245			_aMathematician for all seasons: recollections and notes Vol. 1 (1887-1945)
260			_aCham, Switzerland: _bBirkhäuser, _c2016.
300			_axv, 491p.: _bcol. ill.; maps; hbk.: _c24 cm.
440			_aVita Mathematica (VM, volume 18)
504			_aIncludes Index
520			_aThis book presents, in his own words, the life of Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1972), noted Polish mathematician of Jewish background, educator, and mathematical popularizer. A student of Hilbert, a pioneer of the foundations of probability and game theory, and a contributor to the development of functional analysis, he was one of those instrumental to the extraordinary flowering of Polish mathematics before and after World War I. In particular, it was he who “discovered” the great Stefan Banach. Exhibiting his great integrity and wit, Steinhaus’s personal story of the turbulent times he survived – including two world wars and life postwar under the Soviet heel – cannot but be of consuming interest. His account of the years spent evading Nazi terror is especially moving. The steadfast honesty and natural dignity he maintained while pursuing a life of demanding scientific and intellectual enquiry in the face of encroaching calamity and chaos show him to be truly a mathematician for all seasons. The present work will be of great interest not only to mathematicians wanting to learn some of the details of the mathematical blossoming that occurred in Poland in the first half of the 20th century, but also to anyone wishing to read a first-hand account of the history of those unquiet times in Europe – and indeed world-wide – by someone of uncommon intelligence and forthrightness situated near an eye of the storm. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-21984-4
650			_aMathematics
650			_aHistory of Mathematical Sciences
650			_aInterwar Poland
650			_aMathematics World War
650			_aPolish mathematicians
700			_aBurns, Robert G _eCo-editor
700			_aSzymaniec, Irena _eCo-editor
700			_aWeron, Aleksander _eCo-editor
700			_aShenitizer, Abe _eTranslator
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