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This is a review of genesis of „ε-δ" language in works of mathematicians of the 19th century. It shows that although the symbols ε and δ were initially introduced in 1823 by Cauchy, no functional relationship for δ as a function of ε was ever ever specified by Cauchy. It was only in 1861 that the epsilon-delta method manifested itself to the full in Weierstrass de_nition of a limit. The article...
In the article, there are presented some remarks connected to the book “Matematika na Nĕmecké univerzitĕ v Praze v letech 1882–1945” by M. Bečvářova. The problems mentioned in the title are first discussed in a comprehensive manner based on numerous distributed sources.
Pre-war academic staff in Poland, seriously curtailed during World War II, could not meet satisfactorily post-war demands of quickly expanding academic schools. Help has been provided by the pre-war school teachers. The article describes the situation in the field of mathematics, offering fates of over 40 school teachers of mathematics who joined universities and polytechnics, and giving some general...
This is an essay on the historical landmarks leading to the study of principal confgurations on surfaces in R^3 , their structural stability and further generalizations. Here it is pointed out that in the work of Monge, 1796, are found elements of the qualitative theory of differential equations, founded by Poincaré in 1881. Recent development concerning the space R^4 are mentioned. Two open problems...
The current text is a review of an essay titled „Dwie Warszawy” (Two Warsaws). „Dwie Warszawy” is one of four essays in history of mathematics by Jerzy Mioduszewski. In all of them the author shows, with great discernment, not only the crucial problems of development of mathematical notions, but also cultural as well as political conditions of practising mathematics and its involvements in historical...
Dramatic historical events of the last two centuries in Poland (partitions, uprisings, wars, oppressions etc.) heavily influenced fates of all people, including mathematicians. Distinguishing several periods by the eventful years 1795, 1832, 1862, 1913, 1919, 1939, 1945, 1952, 1989, the author recalls some Polish mathematicians for each of them (in total over 50) to explain what they could or could...
Dear Readers,Here is the 10th volume of the Series VI of the "Roczniki Polskiego Towarzystwa Matematycznego" (Annals of the Polish Mathematical Society)-- Antiquitates Mathematicae, a journal devoted to history of mathematics. We are offering for reading 13 texts in 5 sections.
Samuel Fogelson is a forgotten Polish mathematician and statistician from Warsaw who was also a Soviet intelligence agent. There is no information about him in the Biographical Dictionary of Polish Mathematicians (2003) and the Polish Biographical Dictionary, but it is information in Wikipedia [3], where however it is written only on his espionage activity from the descriptions by A. Poczobut [6]–[8]...
This study is focused on lives of twelve women who prepared their doctorates in mathematics at the Faculty of Philosophy of the German University in Prague in the years 1882–1945, respectively at the Faculty of Science of the Czech University in Prague in the years 1882–1920 and 1921–1945 (known as Charles University in Prague in the latter period). In the first part, a short description of the historical...
The year 2015 marked the 110th anniversary of the birth of a Łódź-based scholar , a mathematician dealing mainly with probability theory and statistics. As the first PhD defending under his direction and a longtime collaborator, I would like to recall the professor's personage because of his great merits in educating Polish academic youth, especially in Łódź.
Birth of computer science is usually associated with the birth and spread of computers. This may be due to the development of technology and electronic techniques, but different ideas of building computing machines has already formed two centuries ago. Computers, from the first moments of its existence, have been a source of fascination. They perceived their potential meant that the mass journalism,...
The article is discussing the life and academic activity Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mieczysław Czyżykowski (1907–1996), an employee of the Warsaw Technical University, a longtime collaborator of the Main Committee of the Mathematical Olympiads in Poland and the international competitions.
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