Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus (English: /ˈhjuːɡoʊ ˈstaɪnhaʊs/ HEW-goh STYNE-howss, Polish: [ˈxuɡɔ ˈʂtajnxaws], German: [ˈhuːɡoː ˈʃtaɪnhaʊs]; 14 January 1887 –...
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mathematics, Steinhaus–Moser notation is a notation for expressing certain large numbers. It is an extension (devised by Leo Moser) of Hugo Steinhaus's polygon...
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Stefan Banach (section Discovery by Steinhaus)
park, Banach encountered Professor Hugo Steinhaus, one of the renowned mathematicians of the time. According to Steinhaus, while he was strolling through...
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The Steinhaus–Johnson–Trotter algorithm or Johnson–Trotter algorithm, also called plain changes, is an algorithm named after Hugo Steinhaus, Selmer M...
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Uniform boundedness principle (redirect from Banach-Steinhaus theorem)
norm. The theorem was first published in 1927 by Stefan Banach and Hugo Steinhaus, but it was also proven independently by Hans Hahn. Uniform Boundedness...
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is of measure zero. Falconer's conjecture Steinhaus (1920); Väth (2002) Weil (1940) p. 50 Steinhaus, Hugo (1920). "Sur les distances des points dans...
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Steinhaus may refer to: Bibiana Steinhaus, German football referee Edward Arthur Steinhaus (1914–1969), American insect pathologist Hugo Steinhaus, mathematician...
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described by Georg Alexander Pick in 1899. It was popularized in English by Hugo Steinhaus in the 1950 edition of his book Mathematical Snapshots. It has multiple...
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is a possible axiom for set theory introduced by Jan Mycielski and Hugo Steinhaus in 1962. It refers to certain two-person topological games of length...
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dimension. Although the "paradox of length" was previously noted by Hugo Steinhaus, the first systematic study of this phenomenon was by Lewis Fry Richardson...
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The Steinhaus longimeter, patented by the professor Hugo Steinhaus, is an instrument used to measure the lengths of curves on maps. It is a transparent...
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study of fair cake-cutting was initiated during World War II, when Hugo Steinhaus asked his students Stefan Banach and Bronisław Knaster to find a generalization...
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hyperplane. This is possible even if the objects overlap. It was proposed by Hugo Steinhaus and proved by Stefan Banach (explicitly in dimension 3, without stating...
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Three-gap theorem (redirect from Steinhaus conjecture)
be at least two distinct distances. This result was conjectured by Hugo Steinhaus, and proved in the 1950s by Vera T. Sós, János Surányi [hu], and Stanisław...
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mathematics at the Polish University of Lwów in 1937 under the direction of Hugo Steinhaus. While there, he was a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics. After...
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The Steinhaus chessboard theorem is the following theorem, due to Hugo Steinhaus: Consider a chessboard on which some cells contain landmines. Then, either...
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second world war. It was devised by a group of Polish mathematicians, Hugo Steinhaus, Bronisław Knaster and Stefan Banach, who used to meet in the Scottish...
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mathematicians visited the city and also added problems to the book. Hugo Steinhaus contributed the last problem on 31 May 1941, shortly before the German...
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scanning probe microscopy, polymers Centre of Biomedical Engineering Hugo Steinhaus Center : to organize, encourage and support research on and education...
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(1901), Hermann Weyl (1908), Richard Courant (1910), Erich Hecke (1910), Hugo Steinhaus (1911), and Wilhelm Ackermann (1925). Between 1902 and 1939 Hilbert...
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Ulam was a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics. Its founders were Hugo Steinhaus and Stefan Banach, who were professors at the Jan Kazimierz University...
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as the Banach–Steinhaus theorem. Important results of functional analysis include: The uniform boundedness principle or Banach–Steinhaus theorem is one...
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first used by James MacQueen in 1967, though the idea goes back to Hugo Steinhaus in 1956. The standard algorithm was first proposed by Stuart Lloyd of...
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the sorting numbers are a sequence of numbers introduced in 1950 by Hugo Steinhaus for the analysis of comparison sort algorithms. These numbers give the...
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according to his own subjective valuation. The procedure was developed by Hugo Steinhaus for n = 3 people. It was later extended by Harold W. Kuhn to n > 3,...
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Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Together with his teacher Hugo Steinhaus and his colleague Stefan Banach, he also developed the last diminisher...
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identity element. This property is named for Hugo Steinhaus since it is the conclusion of the Steinhaus theorem. Cantor function – Continuous function...
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continuum hypothesis (CH). Sierpiński's theorem answered a question of Hugo Steinhaus and was proved long before the independence of CH had been established...
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(born 1985) – footballer Kamil Piątkowski (born 2000) – footballer Hugo Steinhaus (1887–1972) – Jewish-Polish mathematician Michał Szpak (born 1990) –...
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included: Stefan Banach Feliks Barański Władysław Orlicz Stanisław Saks Hugo Steinhaus Stanisław Mazur Stanisław Ulam Józef Schreier Juliusz Schauder Mark...
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