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Samuel Dickstein (12 May 1851 – 28 September 1939) was a Polish

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

of Jewish origin. He was one of the founders of the Jewish party ''Zjednoczenie'' ("the union"), which advocated the assimilation of Polish Jews. He was born in

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and was killed there by a German bomb at the beginning of

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. All the members of his family were murdered during the

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Work

Dickstein wrote many mathematical books and founded the journal ''Wiadomości Mathematyczne'' (''Mathematical News''), now published by the

Polish Mathematical Society The Polish Mathematical Society ( pl, Polskie Towarzystwo Matematyczne) is the main professional society of Polish mathematicians and represents Polish mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and the International Mathematical Un ...

. He was a bridge between the times of

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and Poincaré and those of the

Lwów School of Mathematics The Lwów school of mathematics ( pl, lwowska szkoła matematyczna) was a group of Polish mathematicians who worked in the interwar period in Lwów, Poland (since 1945 Lviv, Ukraine). The mathematicians often met at the famous Scottish Café t ...

. He was also thanked by

Alexander Macfarlane Alexander Macfarlane FRSE LLD (21 April 1851 – 28 August 1913) was a Scottish logician, physicist, and mathematician. Life Macfarlane was born in Blairgowrie, Scotland, to Daniel MacFarlane (Shoemaker, Blairgowire) and Ann Small. He s ...

for contributing to the ''Bibliography of Quaternions'' (1904) published by the

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. He was also one of the personalities, who contributed to the foundation of the

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in 1907.

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Biography of Samuel Dickstein

19th-century Polish mathematicians 20th-century Polish mathematicians 19th-century Polish Jews 1851 births 1939 deaths Academic staff of the University of Warsaw Scientists from Warsaw Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta Polish civilians killed in World War II Deaths by airstrike during World War II 20th-century Polish Jews {{Poland-mathematician-stub