Stanisław Gołąb
Mathematician, Academic
1902 – 1980
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Who was Stanisław Gołąb?
Stanisław Gołąb was a Polish mathematician from Kraków, working in particular on the field of affine geometry.
In 1932, he proved that the perimeter of the unit disc 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.
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- Born
- Jul 26, 1902
Travnik - Profession
- Education
- Jagiellonian University
- Died
- Apr 30, 1980
Kraków
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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