Stanisław Gołąb
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Stanisław Gołąb (July 26, 1902 – April 30, 1980) was a Polish mathematician from Kraków, working in particular on the field of affine geometry.
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Stanisław Gołąb | |
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Born | (1902-07-26)July 26, 1902 |
Died | April 30, 1980(1980-04-30) (aged 77) |
Nationality | Polish |
Alma mater | Jagiellonian University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Jagiellonian University |
Doctoral advisor | Stanisław Zaremba |
Doctoral students | Marek Kuczma |
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In 1932, he proved that the perimeter of the unit disc respect to a given metric can take any value in between 6 and 8, and that these extremal values are obtained if and only if the unit disc is an affine regular hexagon resp. a parallelogram.[1]