Hugo Steinhaus
Polish mathematics educator
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Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus was a Polish mathematician and educator. Steinhaus obtained his PhD under David Hilbert at Göttingen University in 1911 and later became a professor at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów, where he helped establish what... Wikipedia
Born: January 14, 1887, Jasło, Poland
Died: February 25, 1972 (age 85 years), Wrocław, Poland
Education: University of Göttingen (1906–1911) and Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (1904–1906)
Known for: Banach–Steinhaus theorem, many others, see section below