Jan Mycielski

Jan Mycielski (born February 7, 1932 in Wiśniowa, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland) is a Polish-American mathematician, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Mycielski received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wrocław in 1957 under the supervision of Stanisław Hartman. His dissertation was entitled "Applications of Free Groups to Geometrical Constructions". Following positions at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the University of California, Berkeley, and Case Western Reserve University, he took a permanent faculty position at Colorado in 1969.

Among the mathematical concepts named after Mycielski are:

In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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