Władysław Ślebodziński
Polish mathematician
Died when: 87 years 331 days (1054 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Wladyslaw Slebodzinski (Polish pronunciation: [vwa'd?swaf ?l?b?'d?i?sk?i]) (February 6, 1884 – January 3, 1972) was a Polish mathematician.Wladyslaw Slebodzinski was born in Pysznica, Poland and 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 Poznan and in the thirties, he was a visiting lecturer at the Poznan 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.
In 1945 he became a joint professor at Wroclaw University and at the Wroclaw University of Technology, and from 1951 he was a professor at the Wroclaw University of Technology.
With Bronislaw Knaster, Edward Marczewski and Hugo Steinhaus, he was a co-founder of the mathematical journal .From 1949 until 1960, he was a Professor of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Wladyslaw Slebodzinski's main interest was differential geometry.In 1931, he introduced the definition of the Lie derivative, although according to J.A.
Schouten, the term Lie derivative occurred first in a two-part paper by van Dantzig.He was the advisor of 11 PhD theses.
He was also doctor honoris causa at the Wroclaw University of Technology (1965), at the Poznan University of Technology (1967), and at the Wroclaw University (1970).
Prof.Slebodzinski was a member, President (1961-1963) and honorary member of the Polish Mathematical Society.He died in Wroclaw in 1972 and is buried in the Wroclaw, Cemetery Sepolno.
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