Jan W. Jaworowski (March 2, 1928 in
Augustów
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,
Poland – April 10, 2013
in
Bloomington,
Indiana) was a Polish and American mathematician,
topologist.
Biography
His father was Jan Leonard Jaworowski, and his mother—Helena (maiden name Heybowicz).
He graduated (got master's degree) from the mathematical 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.
He generalized the
Borsuk–Ulam theorem about
antipodes
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.
He taught at University of Warsaw,
University of Ljubljana, and for years at The
Indiana University Bloomington. He published 64 papers
and was a promoter of at least 11 doctoral theses.
He was a member of the
Institute for Advanced Study during the 1960/61.
Jaworowski specialized in the
transformation groups theory.
References
Polish mathematicians
20th-century American mathematicians
Topologists
1928 births
2013 deaths
People from Augustów
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