HUGO STEINHAUS

Early Life and Education

• Steinhaus was born on January 14, 1887 in Jaso, Poland

• After finishing primary school he went to Germany to study at the university of Gottingen.

• Studied under many famous mathematicians such as David Hilbert.

• He was awarded a doctorate in mathematics in 1911.

Academic Career

• After serving four years in the military in WWI he returned to Poland to begin his career.

He taught at Karkow and then Lvov.

He founded the Lvov School of Mathematics.

Mathematic Contributions

• Banach-Stteinhaus Theorem.

• The Ham Sandwich Theorem

"He was one of the architects of the school of mathematics which flowered miraculously in Poland between the two wars and it was he who, perhaps more than any other individual, helped to raise Polish mathematics from the ashes to which it had been reduced by the second World War to the position of new strength and respect which it now occupies. He was a man of great culture and in the best sense of the word a product of Western civilization."

STEFAN BANACH

Early Life and Education

born on 30 March 1892 at St. Lazarus General Hospital in Krakow

In 1902, Banach finished primary school in Krakow and began his secondary education at the Henryk Sienkiewicz Gymnasium No. 4 in the same city.

Career

1920 Banach was given assistantship at the Jagiellonian University

he was also accepted as a member of the Polish Academy of learning

Mathematic Contributions

Functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis, the core of which is formed by the study of Vector spaces endowed with some kind of limit-related structure and the linear operators acting upon these spaces and respecting these structures in a suitable sense.

"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."