Antoni Łomnicki
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| Born | 17 January 1881 |
| Died | 4 July 1941 (aged 60) |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Alma mater | Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
Antoni Marian Łomnicki (17 January 1881 – 4 July 1941) was a Polish mathematician. He contributed to applied mathematics and cartography.
Life and work
Antoni Łomnicki was born in Lwów, the son of Marian Łomnicki. He was educated at the Lviv's IV Gymnasium, Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów in Poland (1899-1903) and the University of Göttingen in Germany. His teachers included Józef Puzyna, Jan Rajewski, Stanisław Kępiński, Marian Smoluchowski, and Kazimierz Twardowski. In 1920 he became professor of the Lwów University of Technology and taught for the next twenty years. He was part of the Lwów school of mathematics and influenced many other mathematicians including Stefan Banach, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Stanisław Stożek, Antoni Nikliborc, Stefan Kaczmarz, Władysław Orlicz, and Stanisław Mazur. In 1938 he became a member of the Warsaw Scientific Society (TNW). He worked on probability, calculus, statistics and mathematical cartography and wrote on the teaching of mathematics.[1]
Łomnicki was murdered by the Nazi Germans during the Second World War on the Wzgórza Wuleckie in Lwów in the Massacre of Lwów professors.
In December 1944 Stefan Banach wrote the following tribute to Łomnicki:
- A native of Lwów, he worked for over twenty years as a mathematics professor at the Lwów University of Technology. He prepared hundreds of engineers for their profession. I was his assistant. He was the first to instil in me the importance and responsibility of a professor’s task. He was an unrivalled educator, one of the best I ever knew. He was the author of many popular schoolbooks as well as textbooks on advanced analysis for technologists, surpassing in quality those published abroad. His work in the field of cartography was at a high level. Equally effective were his teaching and pedagogic efforts. Professor Łomnicki had tremendous energy and a great work ethic.[2]
References
- ^ Maligranda, L. (2008). "Antoni Łomnicki (1881–1941)" (PDF). Wiadomo ́sci Matematyczne (in Polish). 44 (2): 62–77.
- ^ Emilia Jakimowicz and Adam Miranowicz (2011) Stefan Banach: Remarkable Life, Brilliant Mathematics, 3rd edition, page 25, Gdańsk University Press, ISBN 978-83-7326-827-2
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