Stanisław Mazur

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Stanisław Mazur (born 1 January 1905, Lvov - 5 November 1981, Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Mazur was a student of Stefan Banach at Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine). 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 theorem
• Banach-Mazur game
• Gel'fand-Mazur theorem
• Scottish Café

[edit] Sources

• O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Stanisław Mazur”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive