Mathematician for All Seasons

by Hugo Steinhaus

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 analysis, he was one of those instrumental to the extraordinary flowering of Polish mathematics before and after World War I. In particular, it was he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319286137
• ISBN13: 9783319286136
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Birkhauser