Stanisław Zaremba (3 October 1863 – 23 November 1942) was a Polish

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and engineer.. His research in

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and classical analysis, particularly on

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, gained him a wide recognition. He was one of the mathematicians who contributed to the success of the Polish School of Mathematics through his teaching and organizational skills as well as through his research. Apart from his research works, Zaremba wrote many university textbooks and

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ies. He was a professor of the

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(since 1900), member of

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(since 1903), co-founder and president of the

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(1919), and the first editor of the '' Annales de la Société Polonaise de Mathématique''. He should not be confused with his son Stanisław Krystyn Zaremba, also a mathematician.

Biography

Zaremba was born on 3 October 1863 in Romanówka, present-day

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. The son of an engineer, he was educated at a

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and studied at the Institute of Technology of the same city obtaining his diploma in engineering in 1886. The same year he left Saint Petersburg and went to

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to study mathematics: he received his degree from the Sorbonne in 1889. He stayed in

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until 1900, when he joined the faculty at the

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. His years in France enabled him to establish a strong bridge between Polish mathematicians and those in France. He died on 23 November 1942 in

, during the

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* * 19th-century Polish mathematicians 20th-century Polish mathematicians Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925) Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Members of the Lwów Scientific Society Polish engineers Mathematical analysts University of Paris alumni Academic staff of Jagiellonian University 1863 births 1942 deaths Mathematicians from Austria-Hungary {{Poland-mathematician-stub