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Stanisław Gołąb

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Nationality
  
Polish

Role
  
Mathematician

Fields
  
Mathematics

Name
  
Stanislaw Golab

Education
  
Jagiellonian University

Doctoral advisor
  
Stanislaw Zaremba

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Born
  
July 26, 1902 Travnik (
1902-07-26
)

Institutions
  
Jagiellonian University

Alma mater
  
Jagiellonian University

Died
  
April 30, 1980, Krakow, Poland

Doctoral students
  
Jan Bochenek, Marek Kuczma

Stanisław Gołąb (July 26, 1902 – April 30, 1980) was a Polish mathematician from Kraków, working in particular on the field of affine geometry.

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In 1932, he proved that the perimeter of the unit disc respect to a given metric can take any value in between 6 and 8, and that these extremal values are obtained if and only if the unit disc is an affine regular hexagon resp. a parallelogram.

Selected works

  • S. Gołąb: Quelques problèmes métriques de la géometrie de Minkowski, Trav. de l'Acad. Mines Cracovie 6 (1932), 1–79
  • Golab, S., Über einen algebraischen Satz, welcher in der Theorie der geometrischen Objekte auftritt, Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie 2 (1974) 7–10.
  • Golab, S.; Swiatak, H.: Note on Inner Products in Vector Spaces. Aequationes Mathematicae (1972) 74.
  • Golab, S.: Über das Carnotsche Skalarprodukt in schwach normierten Vektorräumen. Aequationes Mathematicae 13 (1975) 9–13.
  • Golab,S., Sur un problème de la métrique angulaire dans la géometrie de Minkowski, Aequationes Mathematicae (1971) 121.
  • Golab, S., Über die Grundlagen der affinen Geometrie., Jahresbericht DMV 71 (1969) 138–155.

    • References

    Stanisław Gołąb Wikipedia
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