Franciszek Wlodarski (1889-1944)

Lech Maligranda, and Walerian Piotrowski. "Franciszek Wlodarski (1889-1944)." Antiquitates Mathematicae 11 (2017): null. <http://eudml.org/doc/293066>.

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abstract = {Franciszek Włodarski was a Polish mathematician working mainly in analytic geometry and projective geometry. In 1911 he defended his Ph.D. thesis "Projective geometry on the sphere in the vector calculus" at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He published seven scholarly papers and two textbooks, one in analytic geometry, the other one in geometric constructions. He also translated in 1917, from Italian into Polish, the book "Lectures on Projective Geometry" by Federigo Enriques, and this is why he is mentioned in "Tysiąc lat polskiej myśli matematycznej" J. Dianni i A. Wachułka(1963) p. 243. We took interest in Włodarski because of the praise concerning his translation of Enriques's book, his work at the University of Poznań in the years 1919--1929 as well as contradictory information regarding his death year and lack of a photograph in any descriptions concerning his person. We reached his family and, thanks to this, were able complete the missing information. So we present the course of life and the scientific output of Franciszek Włodarski, including an invention patented in the years 1929-1930 in four countries.},
author = {Lech Maligranda, Walerian Piotrowski},
journal = {Antiquitates Mathematicae},
keywords = {Franciszek Włodarski, history of mathematics in Poland, biographies, Poznań University, analytic geometry, projective geometry, geometric constructions, patent},
language = {eng},
pages = {null},
title = {Franciszek Wlodarski (1889-1944)},
url = {http://eudml.org/doc/293066},
volume = {11},
year = {2017},
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AB - Franciszek Włodarski was a Polish mathematician working mainly in analytic geometry and projective geometry. In 1911 he defended his Ph.D. thesis "Projective geometry on the sphere in the vector calculus" at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He published seven scholarly papers and two textbooks, one in analytic geometry, the other one in geometric constructions. He also translated in 1917, from Italian into Polish, the book "Lectures on Projective Geometry" by Federigo Enriques, and this is why he is mentioned in "Tysiąc lat polskiej myśli matematycznej" J. Dianni i A. Wachułka(1963) p. 243. We took interest in Włodarski because of the praise concerning his translation of Enriques's book, his work at the University of Poznań in the years 1919--1929 as well as contradictory information regarding his death year and lack of a photograph in any descriptions concerning his person. We reached his family and, thanks to this, were able complete the missing information. So we present the course of life and the scientific output of Franciszek Włodarski, including an invention patented in the years 1929-1930 in four countries.
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