 | Stefan Banach: remarkable life, brilliant mathematics / Biographical materials edited by Jakimowicz E., Miranowicz A. - Gdansk: University Press, 2010. - viii, 186 p.: ill. - Incl. bibl. ref. - Ind.: p.182-186. - ISBN 978-83-7326-451-9
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Preface ........................................................ xi
1 A Remarkable Life (by Emilia Jakimowicz) ..................... 1
1.1 The Early Years ......................................... 1
1.2 First Great Adventure with Mathematics .................. 5
1.3 Road to Fame ............................................ 8
1.4 The Scottish Café ...................................... 11
1.5 The Dark Years ......................................... 15
1.6 Epilogue ............................................... 18
1.7 Timetable to Stefan Banach's Life ...................... 19
1.8 The Laureates of the Stefan Banach Awards .............. 26
2 Letters ..................................................... 29
2.1 First Letter of Banach to Ulam ......................... 29
2.2 Second Letter of Banach to Ulam ........................ 34
2.3 Banach's Mathematical Enclosure ........................ 37
2.4 Third Letter of Banach to Ulam ......................... 45
2.5 Letter of Greczek to Banach ............................ 50
2.6 Letter of Ulam to Kałuża ............................... 55
3 Recollections ............................................... 57
3.1 Stefan Banach Jr about his Father ...................... 57
3.2 Maria Sowińska about Stefan Banach ..................... 60
3.3 John Greczek about Stefan Banach ....................... 63
3.4 Alicja Żuraniewska about Stefan Greczek ................ 65
3.5 Waksmundzka-Hajnos about Stefan Greczek ................ 67
3.6 Andrzej Alexiewicz about Stefan Banach ................. 72
3.7 Waclaw Szybalski about Stefan Banach ................... 90
3.8 Tadeusz Riedl about Stefan Banach ...................... 99
4 Stefan Banach in the Light of Archives (by Stanisław
Domoradzki, Zoua Pawlikowska-Brożek and Mikhailo
Zarichny) .................................................. 103
5 Banach's Opus Scientificus (by Julian Musielak) ............ 121
5.1 Predecessors .......................................... 121
5.2 Banach Space .......................................... 122
5.3 What is Functional Analysis about? .................... 123
5.4 Methods of Functional Analysis ........................ 126
6 Stefan Banach and Lvov Mathematical School (by Krzysztof
Ciesielski and Zdzisław Pogoda) ............................ 129
7 The Scottish Book (by Marek Kordos) ........................ 143
8 The New Scottish Book (by Roman Duda) ...................... 153
Selected Bibliigraphy in English and French ................... 159
Selected Bibliography in Polish ............................... 162
Biographical Notes ............................................ 167
List of Illustrations ......................................... 175
Index of Names ................................................ 182
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