LEADER 04246nam 22006015 450 001 9910254077803321 005 20200702065243.0 010 $a3-319-23102-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-23102-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000596512 035 $a(EBL)4398733 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001653639 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16433143 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001653639 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14982791 035 $a(PQKB)10671142 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-23102-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4398733 035 $a(PPN)192222392 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000596512 100 $a20160208d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMathematician for All Seasons$b[electronic resource] $eRecollections and Notes, Vol. 2 (1945?1968) /$fby Hugo Steinhaus ; edited by Robert G. Burns, Irena Szymaniec, Aleksander Weron 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Birkhäuser,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (411 p.) 225 1 $aVita Mathematica,$x1013-0330 ;$v19 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a3-319-23101-4 327 $aForeword to the first Polish edition -- Introduction to the English edition -- Part I: Jaslo -- The Gymnasium -- In the capital Lwów -- Göttingen -- The return home -- The life of a private scholar -- Part II: In the university town Lwów -- The first occupation -- Interlude: Flashes of memory -- The second occupation -- Homeless wandering -- Osiczyna -- Interlude: Flashes of memory -- Stróze -- Diary entries -- A flash of memory -- Diary entries (continued) -- Between Kraków and Wroclaw -- Wroclaw -- A taste of America -- Wroclaw again -- America again -- Home again -- Index of names. 330 $aThis book presents, in his own words, the life of Hugo Steinhaus (1887?1972), noted Polish mathematician of Jewish background, educator, and mathematical popularizer. A student of Hilbert, a pioneer of the foundations of probability and game theory, and a contributor to the development of functional analysis, he was one of those instrumental to the extraordinary flowering of Polish mathematics before and after World War I. In particular, it was he who ?discovered? the great Stefan Banach. Exhibiting his great integrity and wit, Steinhaus?s personal story of the turbulent times he survived ? including two world wars and life postwar under the Soviet heel ? cannot but be of consuming interest. His recounting of the fearful years spent evading Nazi terror is especially moving. The steadfast honesty and natural dignity he maintained while pursuing a life of demanding scientific and intellectual enquiry in the face of encroaching calamity and chaos show him to be truly a mathematician for all seasons. The present work will be of great interest not only to mathematicians wanting to learn some of the details of the mathematical blossoming that occurred in Poland in the first half of the 20th century, but also to anyone wishing to read a first-hand account of the history of those unquiet times in Europe ? and indeed world-wide ? by someone of uncommon intelligence and forthrightness situated near an eye of the storm. 410 0$aVita Mathematica,$x1013-0330 ;$v19 606 $aMathematics 606 $aHistory 606 $aHistory of Mathematical Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/M23009 606 $aHistory, general$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/700000 615 0$aMathematics. 615 0$aHistory. 615 14$aHistory of Mathematical Sciences. 615 24$aHistory, general. 676 $a510 700 $aSteinhaus$b Hugo$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$057714 702 $aBurns$b Robert G$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aSzymaniec$b Irena$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aWeron$b Aleksander$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254077803321 996 $aMathematician for all seasons$91520303 997 $aUNINA