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Jan W. Jaworowski (March 2, 1928 in Augustów, Poland – April 10, 2013[1] in Bloomington, Indiana) was a Polish and American mathematician, topologist.
Jan W. Jaworowski | |
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Born | |
Died | October 4, 2013 85) Bloomington, Indiana, United States | (aged
Nationality | Polish |
Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Thesis | On the antipodal sets on a sphere and involutions of metric spaces (1955) |
Doctoral advisor | Karol Borsuk |
Doctoral students | Mary Mulry |
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 Sciences 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 promoter 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.
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