Jan Jaworowski

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Jan W. Jaworowski
Born (1928-03-02)March 2, 1928
Augustów, Poland
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Nationality Polish
Fields Mathematics
Alma mater Warsaw University
Thesis On the antipodal sets on a sphere and involutions of metric spaces (1955)
Doctoral advisor Karol Borsuk

Jan W. Jaworowski (b. March 02, 1928, in Augustów, Poland; d.April 10, 2013,[1] in Bloomington, Indiana) was a Polish and American mathematician, topologist.

Biography

His father was Jan Leonard Jaworowski, and his mother—Helena (maiden name Heybowicz).

He graduated (got master's degree) from the mathematical department of the University of Warsaw. He got his Ph.D. from the Polish Academy of Science 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[4] and was a promotor 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.

References

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