Władysław Ślebodziński

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Władysław Ślebodziński (b. February 6, 1884 in Pysznica - January 3, 1972 in Wrocław, Poland) was a Polish mathematician.

Władysław was educated at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and then lectured at the Poznań University. During the Second World War he lectured at the underground universities for which he was imprisoned, surviving the Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Nordhausen concentration camps.

In 1945 he became professor at the Wrocław University, and from 1951 he was professor at the Poznań University of Technology.

From 1949 until 1960 he was a member of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Interest: Differential geometry. He introduced a definition of the Lie derivative.

Doctor honoris causa of the Poznań University of Technology, Wrocław University of Technology and of the Wrocław University.

[edit] See also

• Kraków School of Mathematics