Hugo Steinhaus

Wadysaw Hugo Dionizy Steinhaus h j u o s t a n h a s was a Polish mathematician and educator. Steinhaus obtained his PhD under David Hilbert at Gttingen University in 1911 and later became a professor at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lww , where he helped establish what later became known as the Lww School of Mathematics. He is credited with discovering mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he gave a notable contribution to functional analysis through the BanachSteinhaus theorem. After World War II Steinhaus played an important part in the establishment of the mathematics department at Wrocaw University and in the revival of Polish mathematics from the destruction of the war.

Steinhaus was born on January 14, 1887 in Jaso, AustriaHungary to a family with Jewish roots. His father, Bogusaw, was a local industrialist, owner of a brick factory and a merchant. His mother was Ewelina, ne Lipschitz. Hugos uncle, Ignacy Steinhaus, was an activist in the Koo Polskie , and a deputy to the Galician Diet, the regional assembly of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.

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