Franciszek Leja

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Franciszek Leja (b. January 27, 1885 in Grodzisko Górne near Przeworsk - October 11, 1979 in Kraków, Poland) was a Polish mathematician.

Franciszek was a teacher of mathematics and physics in high schools from 1910 until 1923, among others in Kraków. From 1924 until 1926 he was a professor at the Warsaw University of Technology and from 1936 until 1960 in the Jagiellonian University.

During the Second World War he lectured on the underground universities in Lancut and Lezajsk.

Since 1948 he worked for the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He was a co-founder of the Polish Mathematics Society in 1919 and from 1963 until 1965 the chairman. Since 1931 he was a member of the Warsaw Science Society (TNW).

Interest: Analytic functions, in particular the method of extremal points and transfinite diameters.

[edit] Works

• Rachunek rózniczkowy i calkowy ze wstepem do równan rózniczkowych (pub. 1947, pub. 16 1979)
• Funkcje zespolone (pub. 1967, pub. 5 1979).

[edit] See also

• Kraków School of Mathematics

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