Dickstein

Samuel Dickstein

Born: 12 May 1851 in Warsaw, Poland
Died: 29 Sept 1939 in Warsaw, Poland

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In 1905 Samuel Dickstein was a founder of the Warsaw Scientific Society and he was important in the development of the Polish Mathematical Society. He became professor of mathematics at Warsaw in 1919.

His work was mostly in algebra and the history of mathematics. In particular Dickstein wrote an important monograph on Wronski in 1896. He died in the Nazi bombing of Warsaw in 1939 and all his family died during the German occupation of Poland.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. A Mostowski, La vie et l'oeuvre de Samuel Dickstein, Prace matematyczno-fizyczne 47 (1949), 5-12. 
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