Władysław Ślebodziński

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Władysław Ślebodziński
Ślebodziński in 1938
Born(1884-02-06)6 February 1884
Pysznica in Poland
Died3 January 1972(1972-01-03) (aged 87)
Wrocław, Poland
Alma materWrocław University
Known forDifferential Geometry
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsWrocław University, Wrocław University of Technology
Thesis O pewnej klasie powierzchni Riemanna  (1929)
Doctoral advisorKazimierz Żorawski[1]
Doctoral studentsStefan Drobot (1947); Abraham Goetz (1957), Ryszard Krasnodębski (1960), Tadeusz Huskowski (1961), Henryk Boroch (1962), Witold Kazimierz Roter (1963), Marek Rochowski (1964), Stanisław Fudali (1967), Mieczysław Kłeczek (1967), Engelbert Dornfeld (1969), Hanna Matuszczyk (1971)

Władysław Ślebodziński (Polish pronunciation: [vwaˈdɨswaf ɕlɛbɔˈdʑiɲskʲi]) (February 6, 1884 – January 3, 1972) was a Polish mathematician.

Władysław Ślebodziński was born in Pysznica, Poland and educated at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (1903-1908) where he subsequently held a teaching position until 1921.[2] After 1921, he lectured at the State High School of Mechanical Engineering Poznań and in the thirties, he was a visiting lecturer at the Poznań 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.[3]

In 1945 he became a joint professor at Wrocław University and at the Wrocław University of Technology, and from 1951 he was a professor at the Wrocław University of Technology. With Bronisław 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.

Władysław Ślebodziński's main interest was differential geometry. In 1931,[4] he introduced the definition of the Lie derivative, although according to J.A. Schouten,[5] the term Lie derivative occurred first in a two-part paper by van Dantzig.[6] He was the advisor of 11 PhD theses.[1] He was also doctor honoris causa at the Wrocław University of Technology (1965), at the Poznań University of Technology (1967), and at the Wrocław University (1970). Prof. Ślebodziński was a member, President (1961-1963) and honorary member of the Polish Mathematical Society.

He died in Wrocław in 1972 and is buried in the Wrocław, Cemetery Sępolno.[7]

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Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Władysław Ślebodziński in Mathematics Genealogy Project". Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  2. ^ Langner-Matuszczykowa, Hanna. "Władysław Ślebodziński -- matematyk, więzień KL Auschwitz Nr 29053". Śląska Republika Uczonych - Schlesische Gelehrtenrepublik - Slezzka vedecka obec. VII (2016). Neiss Verlag (Dresden); Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT - Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe (Wrocław): 399–425. ISSN 1733-2699.
  3. ^ "Władysław Ślebodziński".
  4. ^ Ślebodziński W. (1931), Sur les équations de Hamilton, Bull. Acad. Roy. d. Belg. 17 (5) pp. 864-870
  5. ^ Schouten J.A. (1954), Ricci-Calculus, Springer-Verlag, page 105
  6. ^ Dantzig D. van (1932) Zur allgemeinen projektiven Differentialgeometrie I, II., Proc. Kon. Akad. Amsterdam 35 pp. 524-534; pp. 535-542
  7. ^ "Grave record for Władysław Ślebodziński (6 Feb 1884 - 3 Jan 1972), BillionGraves Record 16763151 Wrocław, wrocławski, dolnośląskie, Poland". Retrieved 2021-02-24.

References[edit]

  • Yano K. (1957). The Theory of Lie Derivatives and its Applications. North-Holland. ISBN 978-0-7204-2104-0. Classical approach using coordinates.


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