Background
Stanisław Saks was born December 30, 1897 in Kalisz, Congress Poland, to an assimilated Polish-Jewish family.
mathematician university professor
Stanisław Saks was born December 30, 1897 in Kalisz, Congress Poland, to an assimilated Polish-Jewish family.
In 1915 he graduated from a local gymnasium and joined the newly recreated Warsaw University.
In 1922 he received a doctorate of his alma mater with a prestigious award Cum Maxima Laude. Soon afterwards he also passed his habilitation and received the Rockefeller scholarship, which allowed him to travel to the United States. Around that time he started publishing articles in various mathematical journals, mostly the Fundamenta Mathematicae, but also in the American Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.
Following the end of the uprising he returned to Warsaw and resumed his academic career.
Foreign most of it he studied the theories of functions and functionals in particular. In 1930 he published his most notable book, the Zarys teorii całki (Sketch on the Theory of the Integral), which later got expanded and translated into several languages, including English (Theory of the Integral), French (Théorie de l"Intégrale) and Russian (Teoriya Integrala).
Despite his successes, Saks was never awarded with the title of a professor and remained an ordinary tutor, initially at his alma mater and the Warsaw University of Technology, and later at the Lwów University and Wilno University. Saks wrote a mathematics book with Antoni Zygmund, Analytic Functions, in 1933.
lieutenant was translated into English in 1952 by East. J. Scott.
In the preface to the English edition, Zygmund writes:
Stanislaw Saks was a man of moral as well as physical courage, of rare intelligence and wit. To his colleagues and pupils he was an inspiration not only as a mathematician but as a human being. In the period between the two world wars he exerted great influence upon a whole generation of Polish mathematicians in Warsaw and LwóWest
In November 1942, at the age of 45, Saks died in a Warsaw prison, victim of a policy of extermination.
After the outbreak of World World War II and the occupation of Poland by Germany, Saks joined the Polish underground. Arrested in November 1942, he was executed November 23, 1942 by the German Gestapo in Warsaw.
He was also an active socialist and a journalist at the Robotnik weekly (1919-1926) and later a collaborator of the Association of Socialist Youth.