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    Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus (Polish: [ˈxuɡɔ ˈʃtaɪ̯nˌhaʊ̯s]; English: /ˈhjuːɡoʊ ˈstaɪnˌhaʊs/; January 14, 1887 – February 25, 1972) was a Polish mathematician...
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  • mathematics, Steinhaus–Moser notation is a notation for expressing certain large numbers. It is an extension (devised by Leo Moser) of Hugo Steinhaus's polygon...
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    park, Banach encountered Professor Hugo Steinhaus, one of the renowned mathematicians of the time. According to Steinhaus, while he was strolling through...
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    The Steinhaus–Johnson–Trotter algorithm or Johnson–Trotter algorithm, also called plain changes, is an algorithm named after Hugo Steinhaus, Selmer M...
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  • norm. The theorem was first published in 1927 by Stefan Banach and Hugo Steinhaus, but it was also proven independently by Hans Hahn. Uniform Boundedness...
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  • Steinhaus may refer to: Bibiana Steinhaus, German football referee Edward Arthur Steinhaus (1914–1969), American insect pathologist Hugo Steinhaus, mathematician...
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  • is of measure zero. Falconer's conjecture Steinhaus (1920); Väth (2002) Weil (1940) p. 50 Steinhaus, Hugo (1920). "Sur les distances des points dans...
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  • is a possible axiom for set theory introduced by Jan Mycielski and Hugo Steinhaus in 1962. It refers to certain two-person topological games of length...
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    dimension. Although the "paradox of length" was previously noted by Hugo Steinhaus, the first systematic study of this phenomenon was by Lewis Fry Richardson...
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  • hyperplane. This is even possible if the objects overlap. It was proposed by Hugo Steinhaus and proved by Stefan Banach (explicitly in dimension 3, without taking...
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    described by Georg Alexander Pick in 1899. It was popularized in English by Hugo Steinhaus in the 1950 edition of his book Mathematical Snapshots. It has multiple...
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  • be at least two distinct distances. This result was conjectured by Hugo Steinhaus, and proved in the 1950s by Vera T. Sós, János Surányi [hu], and Stanisław...
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    mathematics at the Polish University of Lwów in 1937 under the direction of Hugo Steinhaus. While there, he was a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics. After...
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    study of fair cake-cutting was initiated during World War II, when Hugo Steinhaus asked his students Stefan Banach and Bronisław Knaster to find a generalization...
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  • problem as applied to the amount of money a kidnapper was demanding. Hugo Steinhaus wrote about a number of variants of fair division in his book Mathematical...
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  • scanning probe microscopy, polymers Centre of Biomedical Engineering Hugo Steinhaus Center : to organize, encourage and support research on and education...
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    in 1944, worked in the Underground Warsaw University) Sergei Sobolev Hugo Steinhaus (spent World War II in hiding, teaching in illegal underground education)...
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  • The Steinhaus chessboard theorem is the following theorem, due to Hugo Steinhaus: Consider a chessboard on which some cells contain landmines. Then, either...
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    Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Together with his teacher Hugo Steinhaus and his colleague Stefan Banach, he also developed the last diminisher...
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    (born 1985) – footballer Kamil Piątkowski (born 2000) – footballer Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1972) – Jewish-Polish mathematician Michał Szpak (born 1990) –...
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    (1901), Hermann Weyl (1908), Richard Courant (1910), Erich Hecke (1910), Hugo Steinhaus (1911), and Wilhelm Ackermann (1925). Between 1902 and 1939 Hilbert...
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  • first used by James MacQueen in 1967, though the idea goes back to Hugo Steinhaus in 1956. The standard algorithm was first proposed by Stuart Lloyd of...
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    Polish Republic, notable for its schools of mathematics (Stefan Banach, Hugo Steinhaus), logics (Kazimierz Twardowski), history and law (Oswald Balzer), anthropology...
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    Dlugosz and Stanislaw Wyspianski. And of famous Polish Mathematician Hugo Steinhaus, Stefan Banach and Otto Nikodym. The park forms a scenic walkway popular...
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    parallel to r, one through B, the other through p.q. The suggestion of Hugo Steinhaus is that the (central) triangle with sides p,q,r be reflected in its...
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    Arithmetic billiards have been discussed as mathematical puzzles by Hugo Steinhaus and Martin Gardner, and are known to mathematics teachers under the...
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  • the sorting numbers are a sequence of numbers introduced in 1950 by Hugo Steinhaus for the analysis of comparison sort algorithms. These numbers give the...
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  • mathematician famous for his solutions to two iconic problems posed by Hugo Steinhaus: the three-gap theorem and the non-tetratorus theorem. Stanisław (Stash)...
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    University of Technology. With Bronisław Knaster, Edward Marczewski and Hugo Steinhaus, he was a co-founder of the mathematical journal Colloquium Mathematicum...
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    as the Banach–Steinhaus theorem. Important results of functional analysis include: The uniform boundedness principle or Banach–Steinhaus theorem is one...
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