Edward Kofler

Who was Edward Kofler?

Edward Kofler was a mathematician who made important contributions to game theory and fuzzy logic by working out the theory of linear partial information.

He was born in Brzeżany, Austrian-Hungarian empire and graduated as a disciple of among others Hugo Steinhaus and Stefan Banach from the University of Lwów Poland and the University of Cracow, having studied game theory. After the graduation in 1939 Kofler returned to his family in Kolomyia, where he taught mathematics in a Polish high school. After German attack on the town 1 July 1941 he succeeded to flight to Kazakhstan together with his wife. Here at Alma-Ata he managed a Polish school with orphanage in exile and worked there as mathematics teacher. After the World War II was ended he returned home to Polen with the orphanage. He was accompanied by the wife and his baby son. The family settled in Poland. From 1959 he accepted the position of lecturer at the University of Warsaw in the faculty of economics. In 1962 he gained a Ph.D. with his thesis Economic Decisions, Applying Game Theory. Then in 1962 he became assistant professor at the faculty of social science in the same university, specializing in econometrics.