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Stanislaw Saks

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Stanislaw Saks · Science & Medicine

What

Measure theory and the theory of the integral

When

1897, Kalisz, Poland (then Russian Empire) — 1942, Warsaw, Poland

Where

Poland

Biography

Stanislaw Saks is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Measure theory and the theory of the integral

How & why

Saks was a Polish Jewish mathematician of the Warsaw School whose treatises Theory of the Integral and (with Zygmunt) Analytic Functions became classics of measure theory and real analysis. Active in the resistance, he was arrested and murdered by the Gestapo in 1942. He was born into a Jewish family in Kalisz.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Measure theory and the theory of the integral

1897

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics