Wladimir Lewicki

Wladimir Lewicki was a Ukrainian mathematician who was the first to publish a mathematical paper in Ukrainian, doing so in 1894. He earned a doctorate in 1901 at Lviv University under Józef Puzyna. Like fellow Ukrainian Mykola Chaikovsky, Lewicki worked in Lviv and in high schools. Unlike Czajkowski, he maintained close contacts with the Polish Lwów School of Mathematics and published many papers on analytic functions in German.[1]

In 1929, Mikhail Kravchuk encouraged Lewicki to emigrate to Ukraine, offering positions either in Kyiv or in Kharkiv, but nothing came out of these efforts. Lewicki repeatedly denounced the Soviet regime in public. In 1932, he resigned his membership in the Kyiv mathematical society to protest its politicization, which included dismissal of Dmitry Grave as its head. He later resigned from the Soviet Ukrainian Academy of Sciences as well.[1]

Upon Russian occupation of Lviv in 1939, and its subsequent Ukrainization, Lewicki was appointed as a professor at the Lviv University. After World War II, upon the exodus of Polish mathematicians, he occupied the chair of Stefan Banach and tried to preserve what little remained of the traditions of the Lwów School of Mathematics. He died peacefully in 1956.[1]

Personal life

In October 1951, the 82nd United States Congress passed a private law admitting Lewicki; his wife, Heedwige Lewicki; and son, George Wladimir Lewicki, as permanent residents.[2] George Wladimir Lewicki graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960 and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in June 1961.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Zusmanovich, Pasha (2024). "Mathematicians going east". Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. 14 (1): 114–167. doi:10.5642/jhummath.EGCM7534. MR 4758663. See in particular pages 141–142.
  2. ^ For the relief of Wladimir Peter Lewicki, Mrs. Heedwige Lewicki, and George Wladimir Lewicki (Private Law 324). Stat. Vol. 65. 11 October 1951. a121.
  3. ^ "Sixty-Seventh Annual Commencement Exercises" (Document). California Institute of Technology. 9 June 1961. p. 11.

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