Stanisław Mazur

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Stanisław Mazur (born 1 January 1905, Lvov - 5 November 1981, Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Mazur was a student of Stefan Banach at Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine). His doctorate, under Banach's supervision, was awarded in 1935. From 1948 Mazur worked at the University of Warsaw.

Mazur was a close collaborator with Banach at Lwów and was a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics, where he participated in the mathematical activities at the Scottish Café. On 6 November 1936, Mazur posed the "basis problem" of determining whether every Banach space have a Schauder basis, with Mazur promising a "live goose" as a reward: Thirty-seven years later, a live goose was awarded by Mazur to Per Enflo in a ceremony that was broadcast throughout Poland.

Mazur made important contributions to geometrical methods in linear and nonlinear functional analysis and to the study of Banach algebras. Mazur was also interested in summability theory, infinite games and computable functions.

[edit] See also

• Approximation problem
• Approximation property
• Banach-Mazur theorem
• Banach-Mazur game
• Compact operator
• Gel'fand-Mazur theorem
• Mazur–Ulam theorem
• Schauder basis
• Scottish Café

[edit] References

• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Stanisław Mazur", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .