Jan Jaworowski

Jan W. Jaworowski
Jan W. Jaworowski
Born	March 2, 1928; Augustów, Poland
Died	October 4, 2013 (aged 85); Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Nationality	Polish
Alma mater	University of Warsaw
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Thesis	On the antipodal sets on a sphere and involutions of metric spaces (1955)
Doctoral advisor	Karol Borsuk

Jan W. Jaworowski (March 2, 1928 in Augustów, Poland – April 10, 2013[1] in Bloomington, Indiana) was a Polish and American mathematician, topologist.

Biography

His father was Jan Leonard Jaworowski, and his mother—Helena (maiden name Heybowicz).

He graduated (got master's degree) from the mathematical department of the University of Warsaw. He got his Ph.D. from the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1955, in Algebraic topology, under Karol Borsuk.[2][3] He generalized the Borsuk–Ulam theorem about antipodes.

He taught at University of Warsaw, University of Ljubljana, and for years at The Indiana University Bloomington. He published 64 papers[4] and was a promoter of at least 11 doctoral theses.

He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study during the 1960/61.[5]

Jaworowski specialized in the transformation groups theory.

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James F. Davis; Charles Livingston. "Memorial resolution - Jan Wlodzimierz Jaworowski". Indiana Univ. Bloomington. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
Jan Jaworowski at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
"Doktoraty (PhD's)". Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (in Polish). Retrieved 2016-03-01.
"In Memory of Jan Jaworowski". dignitymemorial.com. Retrieved 2015-09-08.
"Jaworowski, Jan W." Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2015-09-08.

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