Lviv School of Mathematics
The Lviv School of Mathematics was a group of mathematicians who worked between the World Wars in Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine). They often met at the famous Scottish Café to discuss mathematical problems, and published in the journal Studia Mathematica, founded in 1929.
Many of the mathematicians, especially those of Jewish background, fled this southeastern part of Poland in 1941 when it became clear that it would be invaded by Germany. (It had been occupied by the Soviet Union in September 1939.) Few of the mathematicians survived World War II, but after the war a group including some of the original community carried on their work in western Poland’s Wrocław, the successor city to prewar Lwów. A number of the prewar mathematicians, prominent among them Stanislaw Ulam, became famous for work done in the West.
Notable members of the Lviv School of Mathematics included:
- Stefan Banach
- Feliks Barański
- Władysław Orlicz
- Stanisław Saks
- Hugo Steinhaus
- Stanisław Mazur
- Stanisław Ulam
- Juliusz Schauder
- Mark Kac
- Antoni Łomnicki
- Stefan Kaczmarz
- Herman Auerbach
- Włodzimierz Stożek
- Stanisław Ruziewicz
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org
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