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Steinhaus was professor of Lwów ( 1920- 1941) and Wroclaw ( 1945- 1961) Universities and then University of Notre Dame ( Indiana) ( USA, 1961- 1962Events January January 1 Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand January 3 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro January 4 New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board January 8 Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is e), University of SussexThe University of Sussex is an English campus university located near the East Sussex village of Falmer, near Brighton and Hove and on the edge of the South Downs. It is the only university in England which is entirely located in an Area of Outstanding Na ( 1966Events January January 1 In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. January 2 Strike of public transportation workers in New York City ends January 13 January 3 First Acid Test at the Fil), member of PAU (Polish Academy of Abilities) (since 1945) and PAN ( Polish Academy of Science) (since 1952Summary of notable events in 1952 . Events January events January 8 West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders. January 24 Sudden heavy snowfall in Algeria. January 24 Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada.), and many international science societies and science academies.
He was cofounder of the so called Lwów School of MathematicsThe Lwow School of Mathematics was a group of mathematicians in the corresponding Polish city (now Lviv, Ukraine) who worked together, meeting partcularly at the Scottish Cafe to discuss mathematical problems. Their journal was Studia Mathematica (founded and author of many works (over 170) in the fields of mathematical analysisAnalysis is that branch of mathematics which deals with the real numbers and complex numbers and their functions. It has its beginnings in the rigorous formulation of calculus and studies concepts such as continuity, integration and differentiability in g, probability theory and statistics.
He also wrote some introductory texts on mathematics:
With Stefan Banach, he founded the magazines Studia Mathematica (1929) and by himself Zastosowania matematyki (The Application of Mathematics) (1953).