Włodzimierz Stożek | |
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Born |
Żółkiew (Zhovkva) |
23 July 1883
Died | 3 or 4 July 1941 Lwów (Lviv, now Ukraine) |
(aged 57)
Nationality | Polish |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Lwów School of Mathematics |
Alma mater | Jagiellonian University |
Doctoral advisor | Stanisław Zaremba |
Doctoral students | Stanislaw Ulam |
Włodzimierz Stożek (23 July 1883 – 3 or 4 July 1941) was a Polishmathematician of the Lwów School of Mathematics.
Head of the Mathematics Faculty on the Lwów University of Technology. He was arrested and murdered—together with his two sons: the 29-year-old engineer Eustachy and 24-year-old Emanuel, graduate of the Institute of Technology—by Nazis during the Second World War on 3 or 4 July in Lviv, during the Massacre of Lviv professors.
In December 1944, Stefan Banach wrote the following tribute to Stożek: