Background
Zygmund, Antoni was born on December 26, 1900 in Warsaw, Poland. Son of Wincenty and Antonina (Perkowska) Zygmund.
Zygmund, Antoni was born on December 26, 1900 in Warsaw, Poland. Son of Wincenty and Antonina (Perkowska) Zygmund.
Student, University Warsaw. Doctor honorary, Washington University, St. Louis. Doctor honorary, University Torun, Poland.
Doctor honorary, University Uppsala. Doctor honorary, Paris-Sud.
Instructor, Polytechnic School, Warsaw, 1922-1929;docent, U. Warsaw, 1926-1930;professor, University Wilno, Poland, 1930-1939;professor, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 1940-1945;professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1945-1947;professor mathematics, University of Chicago, 1947-1981;professor emeritus, University of Chicago, 1981-1992.
Served with Polish Army, 1939. Member National Academy of Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Spanish Academy of Sciences, London Mathematics Society (honorary), Italian Academy of Sciences, Argentine Academy of Sciences.
Married Irena Pamowska in 1925.