Biography:Jan Jaworowski
Jan W. Jaworowski | |
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| Born | March 2, 1928 Augustów, Poland |
| Died | October 4, 2013 (aged 85) Bloomington, Indiana, United States |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Thesis | On the antipodal sets on a sphere and involutions of metric spaces (1955) |
| Doctoral advisor | Karol Borsuk |
| Doctoral students | Mary Mulry |
Jan W. Jaworowski (March 2, 1928 in Augustów, Poland – April 10, 2013[1] in Bloomington, Indiana) was a Polish and American mathematician, topologist.
Biography
His father was Jan Leonard Jaworowski, and his mother—Helena (maiden name Heybowicz).
Jaworowski graduated with a master's degree from the mathematics department of the University of Warsaw. He got his Ph.D. from the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1955, in Algebraic topology, under Karol Borsuk.[2][3] He generalized the Borsuk–Ulam theorem about antipodes.
He taught at University of Warsaw, University of Ljubljana, and for years at The Indiana University Bloomington. He published 64 papers during his 57-years official career (and another 12 after his retirement in 1995).[4] He was a promoter of at least 11 doctoral theses.
He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study during the 1960/61.[5]
Jaworowski specialized in the transformation groups theory.
References
- ↑ "Memorial resolution - Jan Wlodzimierz Jaworowski". https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/bfc/view?docId=B22-2015.
- ↑ Jan Jaworowski at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Doctorates" (in en). https://www.impan.pl/en/advancements/doctorates.
- ↑ "Jan Jaworowski Obituary". https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/jan-jaworowski-obituary?id=30184780.
- ↑ "Jaworowski, Jan W.". https://www.ias.edu/scholars/jan-w-jaworowski.
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