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Stanislaw Saks was a man of moral as well as physical courage, of rare intelligence and wit. To his colleagues and pupils he was an inspiration not only as a mathematician but as a human being. In the period between the two world wars he exerted great influence upon a whole generation of Polish
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for his bravery. Following the end of the uprising he returned to Warsaw and resumed his academic career.
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weekly (1919–1926) and later a collaborator of the Association of Socialist Youth.
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family. In 1915 he graduated from a local gymnasium and joined the newly recreated
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Paradoxes of measures and dimensions originating in Felix Hausdorff's ideas
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and remained an ordinary tutor, initially at his alma mater and the
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in particular. In 1930 he published his most notable book, the
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and the occupation of Poland by Germany, Saks joined the
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Zygmund, Antoni (1987), "Stanislaw Saks, 1897–1942",
172:(30 December 1897 – 23 November 1942) was a Polish 153: 128: 118: 108: 98: 76: 51: 32: 249:Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 184:circle, an extensive monograph on the theory of 204:Stanisław Saks was born on 30 December 1897 in 341:prison, victim of a policy of extermination. 8: 180:, known primarily for his membership in the 551: 388:: G.E. Stechert & Co. pp. VI+347. 267:For most of it he studied the theories of 40: 29: 619: 536: 493: 220:. In 1922 he received a doctorate of his 650:MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive 457: 176:and university tutor, a member of the 754:Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust 232:. Soon afterwards he also passed his 7: 749:Academic staff of Vilnius University 316:Saks wrote a mathematics book with 25: 27:Polish mathematician (1897–1942) 621:10.1090/s0002-9904-1938-06811-5 538:10.1090/s0002-9904-1954-09846-4 495:10.1090/s0002-9904-1934-05770-7 410:, with two additional notes by 297:Warsaw University of Technology 226:with a prestigious distinction 664:The Mathematical Intelligencer 1: 759:Warsaw School of Mathematics 671:, Springer New York: 36–41, 739:University of Warsaw alumni 775: 729:Lwów School of Mathematics 518:by S. Saks and A. Zygmund" 446:Lwów School of Mathematics 178:Lwów School of Mathematics 406:. English translation by 252:. He participated in the 163: 146: 141:Denjoy–Young–Saks theorem 137:Denjoy–Luzin–Saks theorem 39: 655:University of St Andrews 595:Tamarkin, J. D. (1938). 374:Saks, Stanisław (1937). 194:Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem 133:Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem 552:Saks & Zygmund 1965 408:Laurence Chisholm Young 243:Fundamenta Mathematicae 614:(9, Part 1): 615–616. 599:Theory of the Integral 482:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 472:Théorie de l'Intégrale 377:Theory of the Integral 345:After the outbreak of 343: 285:Théorie de l'Intégrale 281:Theory of the Integral 238:Rockefeller fellowship 92:German-occupied Poland 734:Mathematical analysts 608:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc 564:Czyż, Janusz (1994). 525:Bull. Amer. Math. Soc 326: 262:Medal of Independence 258:Cross of the Valorous 641:Robertson, Edmund F. 256:and was awarded the 212:, to an assimilated 709:Functional analysts 639:O'Connor, John J.; 299:, and later at the 99:Cause of death 744:People from Kalisz 677:10.1007/BF03023571 516:Analytic Functions 424:Analytic functions 351:Polish underground 329:mathematicians in 322:Analytic Functions 277:Zarys teorii całki 254:Silesian Uprisings 246:, but also in the 714:Measure theorists 581:978-981-02-0189-0 418:Saks, Stanisław; 289:Teoriya Integrala 236:and received the 218:Warsaw University 167: 166: 148:Scientific career 123:Warsaw University 16:(Redirected from 766: 695: 657: 645:"Stanisław Saks" 626: 625: 623: 605: 592: 586: 585: 572:World Scientific 561: 555: 549: 543: 542: 540: 522: 506: 500: 499: 497: 478: 462: 435: 405: 305:Wilno University 229:maxima cum laude 83: 80:23 November 1942 62:30 December 1897 61: 59: 44: 30: 21: 774: 773: 769: 768: 767: 765: 764: 763: 699: 698: 660: 638: 635: 630: 629: 603: 594: 593: 589: 582: 563: 562: 558: 550: 546: 520: 508: 507: 503: 476: 466:Tamarkin, J. 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S. Saks

Kalisz
Congress Poland
Warsaw
German-occupied Poland
Execution
Polish
Warsaw University
Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem
Denjoy–Luzin–Saks theorem
Denjoy–Young–Saks theorem
Mathematics
mathematician
Lwów School of Mathematics
Scottish Café
integrals
measure theory
Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem
Kalisz
Congress Poland
Polish-Jewish
Warsaw University
alma mater
maxima cum laude
habilitation
Rockefeller fellowship
Fundamenta Mathematicae
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
Silesian Uprisings

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