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 | | Specialists began to develop in different fields: Mazur worked in linear methods of summability, Auerbach in differential geometry, Schauder in partial differential equations, Kaczmarz and Orlicz in orthogonal series, Nikliborc in celestial mechanics and figures of equilibrium; to mention only a few examples. |
 | | The school of Banach was occupied with the theory of operators, the school of Kuratowski (at Polytechnic up to 1934) with topology, the school of Chwistek with mathematical logic; I tried to direct my students into the direction of probability theory and applied mathematics. |
 | | In 1938 when Henri Lebesgue became doctor honoris causa at Lwów University, in his official speech he mentioned that the Metaxas prize was shared by Leray and Schauder. |
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