Stanisław Mazur
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Stanisław Mazur (born 1 January 1905 - 5 November 1981) was a Polish mathematician. Member of Polish Academy of Sciences.
Mazur was a student of Stefan Banach's at Lwów. His doctorate, under Banach's supervision, was awarded in 1935. From 1948 Mazur worked at the University of Warsaw.
Mazur was a close collaborator with Banach at Lwów and was a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics. He made important contributions to geometrical methods in linear and non-linear functional analysis and to the study of Banach algebras. Mazur was also interested in summability theory, infinite games and computable functions.
[edit] See also
- Banach-Mazur game
- Gel'fand-Mazur theorem
- Scottish Café