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Hugo Steinhaus
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Hugo Steinhaus
Wladyslaw Hugo Dionizy Steinhaus
(January 14, 1887 – February 25, 1972) was a
Polish
mathematician
and
educator
. Steinhaus obtained his PhD under
David Hilbert
at
Göttingen University
in 1911 and later became a professor at the Jan Kazimierz University in
Lwów
(now
Lviv
,
Ukraine
), where he helped establish what later became known as the
Lwów School of Mathematics
. He is credited with "discovering" mathematician
Stefan Banach
, with whom he gave a notable contribution to
functional analysis
through the
Banach–Steinhaus theorem
. After
World War II
Steinhaus played an important part in the establishment of the mathematics department at
Wroclaw University
and in the revival of Polish mathematics from the destruction of the war.
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