Stanisław Gołąb Scientist

Stanisław Gołąb (July 26, 1902 – April 30, 1980) was a Polish mathematician from Kraków, working in particular on the field of affine geometry.In 1932, he proved that the perimeter of the unit disc can take any value in between 6 and 8, and that these extremal values are obtained if and only if the unit disc is an affine regular hexagon resp. a parallelogram (see unit disc).

Personal facts

Birth dateJuly 26, 1902
Birth place
Travnik
Nationality
Poland
Date of deathApril 30, 1980
Place of death
Kraków
Education
Jagiellonian University

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Scientist

doctoral advisor
doctoral student
Marek Kuczma
Andrzej Zajtz
Jan Bochenek (mathematician)
Zenon Moszner
Field of study
Mathematics

Topical connections

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Alessandro PadoaScientist
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Édouard GoursatScientist
Åke PleijelScientist

Stanisław Gołąb on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://dz-srv1.sub.uni-goettingen.de/sub/digbib/doasearch?sa1=Author&sv1=GOLAB%2CS.