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Włodzimierz Stożek

Włodzimierz Stożek
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Born (1883-07-23)23 July 1883
Żółkiew (Zhovkva)
Died 3 or 4 July 1941(1941-07-04) (aged 57)
Lwów (Lviv, now Ukraine)
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:


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