Wawrzyniec Żmurko (9 July 1824, in Jaworów – 3 April 1889, in

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) was a Polish

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, professor of

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and Lwów Polytechnic,

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of Lwów University, member of

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. He was a president of

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(1879-1881). In 1885-1886 he was Rector of the Lwów University. He was the father of a painter,

Franciszek Żmurko Franciszek Żmurko (18 July 1859, Lviv – 9 October 1910, Warsaw) was a Polish realist painter. Żmurko began drawing lessons as a young boy in his hometown with the painter Franciszek Tepa. As an adolescent he relocated to Kraków to study at ...

Work

Żmurko was active in a number of different fields in mathematics, including differential equations, analytic functions theory, linear algebra and applications of mathematics. He published in both Polish and German. He also invented instruments for drawing conic sections and a device which he called the ''integrator'' for graphical solving of calculus integral problems.

References

* 19th-century Polish mathematicians 1824 births 1889 deaths Burials at Lychakiv Cemetery University of Lviv rectors People from Yavoriv Rectors of universities in Austria-Hungary Mathematicians from Austria-Hungary {{Poland-mathematician-stub