Jan Jaworowski
Polish and American mathematician
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Jan W. Jaworowski (March 2, 1928 in Augustów, Poland – April 10, 2013[1] in Bloomington, Indiana) was a Polish and American mathematician, topologist.
Jan W. Jaworowski | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 2, 1928 |
| Died | October 4, 2013 (aged 85) Bloomington, Indiana, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Thesis | On the antipodal sets on a sphere and involutions of metric spaces (1955) |
| Karol Borsuk | |
Doctoral students | Mary Mulry |
Biography
His father was Jan Leonard Jaworowski, and his mother—Helena (maiden name Heybowicz).
Jaworowski graduated with a master's degree from the mathematics department of the University of Warsaw. He got his Ph.D. from the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1955, in Algebraic topology, under Karol Borsuk.[2][3] He generalized the Borsuk–Ulam theorem about antipodes.
He taught at University of Warsaw, University of Ljubljana, and for years at The Indiana University Bloomington. He published 64 papers during his 57-years official career (and another 12 after his retirement in 1995).[4] He was a promoter of at least 11 doctoral theses.
He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study during the 1960/61.[5]
Jaworowski specialized in the transformation groups theory.
