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Polish mathematician (1905?1981)
Stanisław Mieczysław Mazur
(1 January 1905,
Lwow
? 5 November 1981,
Warsaw
) was a Polish
mathematician
and a member of the
Polish Academy of Sciences
.
Mazur made important contributions to geometrical methods in linear and
nonlinear functional analysis
and to the study of
Banach algebras
. He was also interested in
summability theory
,
infinite games
and
computable functions
.
Lwow and Warsaw
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Mazur awards a live goose to
Per Enflo
, who solved Mazur's 1936 problem in the
Scottish book
. The photograph comes from the book
Poł wieku matematyki polskiej 1920-1970
("Half a Century of Polish Mathematics 1920-1970").
Mazur was a student of
Stefan Banach
at
University of Lwow
. His doctorate, under Banach's supervision, was awarded in 1935.
[1]
Mazur, with
Juliusz Schauder
, was an Invited Speaker of the
ICM
in 1936 in
Oslo
.
[2]
Mazur was a close collaborator with Banach at Lwow and was a member of the
Lwow School of Mathematics
, where he participated in the mathematical activities at the
Scottish Cafe
. On 6 November 1936, he posed the "
basis problem
" of determining whether every
Banach space
has a
Schauder basis
, with Mazur promising a "live goose" as a reward: 37 years later and in a ceremony that was broadcast throughout Poland, Mazur awarded a live goose to
Per Enflo
for constructing a counter-example.
From 1948 Mazur worked at the
University of Warsaw
.
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