Władysław Ślebodziński
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Władysław Ślebodziński (Polish pronunciation: [vwaˈdɨswaf ɕlɛbɔˈdʑiɲskʲi]) (February 6, 1884 in Pysznica – January 3, 1972 in Wrocław, Poland) was a Polish mathematician.
Władysław Ślebodziński was educated at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (1903-1908) where he subsequently held a teaching position until 1921. After 1921, he lectured at the State High School of Mechanical Engineering Poznań and in the thirties, he was a visiting lecturer at the Poznań University and Warsaw University until 1939. During the Second World War, he gave underground lectures, leading to his imprisonment. He survived three German concentration camps: Auschwitz (1942 - 1945), where he gave underground university-level lectures as prisoner no. 79053, Gross-Rosen and Nordhausen. [citation needed]
In 1945 he became a joint professor at Wrocław University and at the Wrocław University of Technology, and from 1951 he was a professor at the Wrocław University of Technology. With Bronisław Knaster, Edward Marczewski and Hugo Steinhaus, he was a co-founder of the mathematical journal Colloquium Mathematicum.
From 1949 until 1960, he was a Professor of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Władysław Ślebodziński's main interest was differential geometry. In 1931,[1] he introduced the definition of the Lie derivative, although according to J.A. Schouten, [2] the term Lie derivative occurred first in a two-part paper by van Dantzig. [3]
He was also doctor honoris causa at the Wrocław University of Technology (1965), at the Poznań University of Technology (1967), and at the Wrocław University (1970). Prof. Ślebodziński was a member, President (1961-1963) and honorary member of the Polish Mathematical Society.
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Notes
- ^ Ślebodziński W. (1931), Sur les équations de Hamilton, Bull. Acad. Roy. d. Belg. 17 (5) pp. 864-870
- ^ Schouten J.A. (1954), Ricci-Calculus, Springer-Verlag, page 105
- ^ Dantzig D. van (1932) Zur allgemeinen projektiven Differentialgeometrie I, II. , Proc. Kon. Akad. Amsterdam 35 pp. 524-534; pp. 535-542
References
- Yano K. (1957). The Theory of Lie Derivatives and its Applications. North-Holland. ISBN 978-0-7204-2104-0. Classical approach using coordinates.