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| | Hugo Steinhaus - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
 | | Wladyslaw Hugo Dionizy Steinhaus (January 14, 1887 - February 25, 1972) was a Polish mathematician, educator, and humanist. |
 | | Steinhaus was professor of Lwów (1920-1941) and Wrocław (1945-1961) Universities and then University of Notre Dame (Indiana) (USA, 1961-1962), University of Sussex (1966), corresponding member of PAU (Polish Academy of Abilities) (since 1945) and PAN (Polish Academy of Sciences) (since 1952), and many international science societies and science academies. |
 | | He was cofounder of the so called Lwów School of Mathematics and author of many works (over 170) in the fields of mathematical analysis, probability theory and statistics. |
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