Mathematician for All Seasons Recollections and Notes, Vol. 2 (1945–1968) /

• Main Author: Steinhaus, Hugo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Burns, Robert G. (Editor), Szymaniec, Irena (Editor), Weron, Aleksander (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Vita Mathematica ; 19
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; History, general.

This book presents, in his own words, the life of Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1972), noted Polish mathematician of Jewish background, educator, and mathematical popularizer. A student of Hilbert, a pioneer of the foundations of probability and game theory, and a contributor to the development of functional...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword to the first Polish edition
• Introduction to the English edition
• Part I: Jaslo
• The Gymnasium
• In the capital Lwów
• Göttingen
• The return home
• The life of a private scholar
• Part II: In the university town Lwów
• The first occupation
• Interlude: Flashes of memory
• The second occupation
• Homeless wandering
• Osiczyna
• Interlude: Flashes of memory
• Stróze
• Diary entries
• A flash of memory
• Diary entries (continued)
• Between Kraków and Wroclaw
• Wroclaw
• A taste of America
• Wroclaw again
• America again
• Home again
• Index of names.