Mathwar/Steinhaus Hugo

From Sccswiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus


Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus (* January 14th 1887 in Jaslo, † February 25th 1972 in Wroclaw)


Life

After military service in the Polish Legion at the beginning of World War I, Steinhaus lived in Kraków. Steinhaus spent the war years from June 1941 hiding from the Nazis, suffering great hardships, going hungry most of the time but always thinking about mathematics.


Sources

Wikipedia

St. Andrew