Stanisław Łojasiewicz (9 October 1926 – 14 November 2002) was a Polish mathematician.
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Biography
At the end of the 1950s, he solved the
problem of distribution division by
analytic function
In mathematics, an analytic function is a function that is locally given by a convergent power series. There exist both real analytic functions and complex analytic functions. Functions of each type are infinitely differentiable, but complex ...
s, introducing the
%C5%81ojasiewicz inequality. Its solution opened the road to important results in the new theory of
partial differential equations
In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which involves a multivariable function and one or more of its partial derivatives.
The function is often thought of as an "unknown" that solves the equation, similar to how ...
. The method established by
Łojasiewicz led him to advance the theory of
semianalytic sets, which opened an important chapter in modern analysis.
Commemoration
The ''Łojasiewicz Lectures''
are a series of annual lectures in
mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...
given at the
Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University (, UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by Casimir III the Great, King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and one of the List of oldest universities in con ...
in honour of Łojasiewicz.
See also
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Real algebraic geometry In mathematics, real algebraic geometry is the sub-branch of algebraic geometry studying real algebraic sets, i.e. real-number solutions to algebraic equations with real-number coefficients, and mappings between them (in particular real polynomi ...
References
1926 births
2002 deaths
20th-century Polish mathematicians
21st-century Polish mathematicians
Recipients of the State Award Badge (Poland)
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