Kazimierz Urbanik

Urbanik began teaching at the University of Wrocław in 1956. By 1960, he was promoted to professor, and in 1965 he became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, becoming its youngest member.^[4][5] He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1966.^[6] He directed the university's Institute of Mathematics for most of the years from 1967 to 1996, and was rector of the university from 1975 to 1981.^[4][5] In 1980, he founded the journal Probability and Mathematical Statistics, and became its first editor-in-chief.^[5]

His research contributions include over 180 papers.^[7][8] His work in probability theory included work on random variables in compact groups, connections between measurability and connectivity, generalized convolutions, and decomposability semigroups.^[9] He also studied stochastic processes, information theory, universal algebra, and functional analysis. He was the doctoral advisor of 17 students.^[1][5]