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Polish mathematician
Antoni Marian Łomnicki
(17 January 1881 ? 4 July 1941) was a Polish
mathematician
. He contributed to applied mathematics and cartography. He was the author of several textbooks of mathematics and was an influential mathematics teacher at the
University of Lwow
.
Life and work
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Antoni Łomnicki was born in Lwow, the son of
Marian Łomnicki
. He was educated at the Lviv's IV Gymnasium,
Jan Kazimierz University in Lwow
in Poland (1899-1903). . His teachers included Jozef Puzyna,
Jan Rajewski
, Stanisław K?pi?ski,
Marian Smoluchowski
, and
Kazimierz Twardowski
. He passed the teachers exam in 1903 and received a government scholarship in 1906 to study at the
University of Gottingen
where he attended lectures by
David Hilbert
,
Felix Klein
,
H. Minkovsky
, and others. He taught at the 7th Gymnasium in Lviv and from 1913 at the Lviv Polytechnic School. In 1918-19 he took part in the Polish-Ukrainian war. In 1920 he became
professor
of the
Lwow University of Technology
and taught for the next twenty years. He was part of the
Lwow school of mathematics
and influenced many other mathematicians including
Stefan Banach
,
Kazimierz Kuratowski
, Stanisław Sto?ek, Antoni Nikliborc,
Stefan Kaczmarz
,
Władysław Orlicz
, and
Stanisław Mazur
. In 1938 he became a member of the
Warsaw Scientific Society
(TNW). He worked on probability, calculus, statistics and mathematical cartography and wrote on the teaching of mathematics.
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His major works included
Kartografia matematyczna
(Warszawa 1927).Łomnicki was arrested on July 3, 1941 by the invading
Nazi Germans
during the
Second World War
and shot along with several other professors (see
Massacre of Lwow professors
) the next day on the Wzgorza Wuleckie in Lwow.
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In December 1944
Stefan Banach
wrote the following tribute to Łomnicki:
- A native of Lwow, he worked for over twenty years as a mathematics professor at the Lwow University of Technology. He prepared hundreds of
engineers
for their profession. I was his assistant. He was the first to instil in me the importance and responsibility of a professor’s task. He was an unrivalled
educator
, one of the best I ever knew. He was the author of many popular schoolbooks as well as
textbooks
on advanced analysis for technologists, surpassing in quality those published abroad. His work in the field of
cartography
was at a high level. Equally effective were his teaching and pedagogic efforts. Professor Łomnicki had tremendous energy and a great
work ethic
.
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