Władysław Ślebodziński

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Władysław Ślebodziński (Polish pronunciation: [vwaˈdɨswaf ɕlɛbɔˈd͡ʑij̃skʲi]; 6 February 1884 – 3 January 1972) was a Polish mathematician.

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Biography Władysław Ślebodziński was born on 6 February 1884, in Pysznica, and educated at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (1903–1908) where he subsequently held a teaching position until 1921. After 1921, he lectured at the State High School of Mechanical Engineering Poznań and in the thirties, he was a visiting lecturer at the Poznań University and Warsaw University until 1939. During the Second World War, he gave underground lectures, leading to his imprisonment. He survived three German concentration camps: Auschwitz (1942–1945), where he gave underground university-level lectures as prisoner no. 79053, Gross-Rosen and Nordhausen. In 1945, he became a joint professor at Wrocław University and at the Wrocław University of Technology, and from 1951 he was a professor at the Wrocław University of Technology. With Bronisław Knaster, Edward Marczewski and Hugo Steinhaus, he was a co-founder of the mathematical journal Colloquium Mathematicum. From 1949 until 1960, he was a Professor of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Władysław Ślebodziński's main interest was differential geometry. In 1931, he introduced the definition of the Lie derivative, although according to J.A. Schouten, the term Lie derivative occurred first in a two-part paper by van Dantzig. He was the advisor…Citește mai mult

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References Yano K. (1957). The Theory of Lie Derivatives and its Applications. North-Holland. ISBN 978-0-7204-2104-0. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) Classical approach using coordinates.