Stanisław Ruziewicz

Stanisław Ruziewicz (29 August 1889 – 12 July 1941) was a Polish mathematician and one of the founders of the Lwów School of Mathematics.

Stanisław Ruziewicz
Stanisław Ruziewicz (c.a. 1939)
Born	(1889-08-29)29 August 1889 Kołomyja (uk. Коломия)
Died	12 July 1941(1941-07-12) (aged 51) Lwów (today Lviv, Ukraine), Nazi-occupied Poland
Nationality	Polish
Alma mater	University of Lwów
Known for	Ruziewicz problem
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Jan Kazimierz University, Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów
Doctoral advisor	Wacław Sierpiński
Doctoral students	Stefan Kaczmarz

He was a former student of Wacław Sierpiński, earning his doctorate in 1913 from the University of Lwów; his thesis concerned continuous functions that are not differentiable.^[1] He became a professor at the same university (then named Jan Kazimierz University) and rector of the Academy of Foreign Trade in Lwów.^[2] During the Second World War, Ruziewicz's home city of Lwów was annexed by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, but then taken over by the General Government of German-occupied Poland in July 1941; Ruziewicz was arrested and murdered by the Gestapo on 12 July 1941 in Lwów, during the Massacre of Lwów professors.^[3]

The Ruziewicz problem, asking whether the Lebesgue measure on the sphere may be characterized by certain of its properties, is named after him.^[4]