Jan Mycielski (Polish: [jan mɨˈt͡ɕɛlskʲi]; born February 7, 1932)[1] is a Polish-American mathematician, logician and philosopher, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.[2] He is known for contributions to graph theory, combinatorics, set theory, topology and the philosophy of mathematics.

Jan Mycielski
Born (1932-02-07) 7 February 1932 (age 92)
Wiśniowa, Poland
NationalityPolish
Alma materUniversity of Wrocław
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions

Life and career

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He was born in 1932 in Wiśniowa, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland.[1]

Mycielski received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wrocław in 1957 under the supervision of Stanisław Hartman [pl]. His dissertation was entitled "Applications of Free Groups to Geometrical Constructions".[3] Following positions at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the University of California, Berkeley, and Case Western Reserve University, he took a permanent faculty position at Colorado in 1969.[1]

Contributions

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Among the mathematical concepts named after Mycielski are:

Awards and honors

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In 1965, he received the Stefan Banach Prize of the Polish Mathematical Society.

In 1990, he was awarded the Wacław Sierpiński Medal and Lecture by the Polish Mathematical Society.[4]

In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

Selected works

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  • 1991. A Note on S. M. Ulam's Mathematics.
A note in Adventures of a Mathematician. Stanislaw Ulam. University of California Press, 1991. ISBN 0520071549

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Curriculum vitae from Mycielski's web site, retrieved 2010-03-10.
  2. ^ Departmental web page for Mycielski Archived 2010-06-03 at the Wayback Machine at the Univ. of Colorado.
  3. ^ Jan Mycielski at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Medal i Wykład im. Wacława Sierpińskiego". ptm.org.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 22 November 2023.
  5. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-02-10.
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