Jerzy Battek - computer scientist from mathematicians

Zbigniew Huzar; Krzysztof J. Szajowski

Antiquitates Mathematicae (2019)

  • Volume: 13
  • ISSN: 1898-5203

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The article introduces the figure of Jerzy Jan Battek (January 14, 1927 - August 12, 1991), who belonged to this generation of youth who managed to survive the period of World War II, without interrupting school education altogether. During the occupation, he studied in secret sets of the Second Science Center and obtained a small high school diploma in 1945. He graduated in 1947 at the State Secondary School for Adults in Wrocław, after which he began studying at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics Chemistry at the University and Wrocław University of Technology. He graduated in 1952 as a master of philosophy. After graduation, in 1952, he started working at the Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Wrocław University of Technology and at the same time was an active participant in the Applied Mathematics Seminar organized and led initially by Hugo Steinhaus. He defended his doctoral thesis, prepared under the direction of Julian Perkal, in 1961. In 1962 he was entrusted with managing the Department of Numerical and Graphic Methods in the Mathematics Department of the Wrocław University of Technology, which began a significant shift of his interests towards the issues covered by IT today. In 1965, he took over the management of the University-wide Computing Center with the Odra-1003 machine from Wrocław. The final fragment of this study is devoted to issues that were important for doc. Jerzy Battek during the period that began the creation of the Computing Center for the rest of his life. This period of his life concide with important part of birth of computer science, which is usually associated with the birth and spread of computers.

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Zbigniew Huzar, and Krzysztof J. Szajowski. "Jerzy Battek - computer scientist from mathematicians." Antiquitates Mathematicae 13 (2019): null. <http://eudml.org/doc/295111>.

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