Władysław Ślebodziński, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish mathematician
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Place of Birth: Pysznica, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland
About Władysław Ślebodziński
- Wladyslaw Slebodzinski (Polish pronunciation: [vwa'd?swaf ?l?b?'d?i?sk?i]) (February 6, 1884 in Pysznica – January 3, 1972 in Wroclaw, Poland) was a Polish mathematician. Wladyslaw Slebodzinski was educated at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (1903-1908) where he subsequently held a teaching position until 1921.
- After 1921, he lectured at the State High School of Mechanical Engineering Poznan and in the thirties, he was a visiting lecturer at the Poznan University and Warsaw University until 1939.
- During the Second World War, he gave underground lectures, leading to his imprisonment.
- He survived three German concentration camps: Auschwitz (1942 - 1945), where he gave underground university-level lectures as prisoner no.
- 79053, Gross-Rosen and Nordhausen.In 1945 he became a joint professor at Wroclaw University and at the Wroclaw University of Technology, and from 1951 he was a professor at the Wroclaw University of Technology.
- With Bronislaw Knaster, Edward Marczewski and Hugo Steinhaus, he was a co-founder of the mathematical journal Colloquium Mathematicum. From 1949 until 1960, he was a Professor of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Wladyslaw Slebodzinski's main interest was differential geometry.
- In 1931, he introduced the definition of the Lie derivative, although according to J.A.
- Schouten, the term Lie derivative occurred first in a two-part paper by van Dantzig.
- He was also doctor honoris causa at the Wroclaw University of Technology (1965), at the Poznan University of Technology (1967), and at the Wroclaw University (1970).
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- Slebodzinski was a member, President (1961-1963) and honorary member of the Polish Mathematical Society.
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