Home Page of Stefan Banach

Home Page of Stefan Banach

Welcome to the Home Page of Stefan Banach (1892 - 1945)
- a page dedicated to one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century.
Thank you for visiting our web-site. Currently the page is in a sketchy preliminary version. But our intention is to make it an official Home Page of Stefan Banach by gathering at one place all the books and articles written by Stefan Banach. Moreover, we will be posting here biographies and recollections of Stefan Banach, and review articles showing the impact of his research on modern mathematics and physics. Our long-term goal is to translate most of the articles available on our Polish Home Page of Stefan Banach including original documents.
This project has been developed under the auspices of the Family of Stefan Banach: Prof. Dr. Hab. Med. Alina Filipowicz-Banach, Prof. Dr. Hab. Waksmundzka-Hajnos, Mrs. Alicja Żuraniewska née Greczek and Dr. Janusz John Greczek. We deeply thank Prof. Filipowicz-Banach, the copyright owner of Stefan Banach's works, for her permission to post copies of all the works on this website. We sincerely thank all the members of Banach's Family for their immense contributions to this project including their recollections of Stefan Banach and his father and for sharing with us all the photographs and original documents of Stefan Banach.

Works of Stefan Banach

Almost all Banach's works are available on our Polish Home Page of Stefan Banach.
  1. List of publications
  2. "Scottish Book"
  3. "Théorie des opérations linéaires" - "Theory of Linear Operations" (in French) - available on this website with the written permission of the author's family and the publishers.
  4. "Mechanics" - available on this website with the written permission of the author's family and the publishers.
  5. "Theory of the Integral" (available on this website with the written permission of the author's family and the publishers).
  6. "Oeuvres" (Collected works of Stefan Banach), Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa, 1967, 1979.
  7. school textbooks

Books and Articles on Stefan Banach in English, French, German and Japanese

A large collection of Polish books and articles on Banach is available on our Polish Home Page of Stefan Banach.
  1. Sheldon Axler: Review of "Through a reporter's eyes: The life of Stefan Banach" by Roman Kałuża, American Mathematical Monthly 104, 577-579 (1997).
  2. Susan H. Case: The Scottish Café (Slapering Hol Press, 2002), a collection of poems.

    A Polish translation by Lech Maligranda of a poem about Władysław Roman Orlicz is included in Leksykon Matematyków Polskich.

  3. Danuta Ciesielska i Krzysztof Ciesielski, Stefan Banach remembered in Kraków, Mathematical Intelligencer 39 (2008) no. 4, 31-35.
  4. Krzysztof Ciesielski: On some details of Stefan Banach's life (available on this website with the written permission of the author and the publishers).
  5. Krzysztof Ciesielski: Lost Legends of Lvov 1: The Scottish Café, Mathematical Intelligencer 9 (1987) #4, 36-37.
  6. Krzysztof Ciesielski: Lost Legends of Lvov 2: Banach's Grave, Mathematical Intelligencer 10 (1988) #1, 50-51.
  7. Krzysztof Ciesielski: On Stefan Banach and some of his results, Banach J. Math. Anal. 1 (2007), 1-10.
  8. Krzysztof Ciesielski and Zdzisław Pogoda: Conversation with Andrzej Turowicz, Mathematical Intelligencer 10 (1988) #4, 13-20.
  9. Jean Dieudonné: History of Functional Analysis, volume 49 of North–Holland Mathematical Studies, North–Holland, Amsterdam-New York-Oxford, 1981.
  10. Roman Duda: The discovery of Banach spaces, in History of Mathematics in Poland, Proc. of the First Joint International Meeting of American Mathematical Society and Polish Mathematical Society (2007).
  11. Roman Duda: Facts and Myths about Stefan Banach, Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society 71 (2009) 29-34.
  12. Mitchell Feigenbaum: Reflections of the Polish Masters: An Interview with Stan Ulam and Mark Kac, Los Alamos Science, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 54-65 (Fall 1982). [PDF link]
  13. Janusz John Greczek: Recollections of Stefan Banach (available on this website with the written permission of the author).
  14. R. Haftmann: Zum 100. Geburtstag von Stefan Banach, Wiss. Z. Tech. Univ. Chemnitz 34 (1), 9-18 (1992).
  15. D. Henderson: Banach's space: Lviv and the Scottish Café, Condensed Matter Physics, Vol. 7, No. 4(40), pp. 679-682 (2004) [PDF link].
  16. Graham Hoare and Nick Lord: Stefan Banach (1892-1945): A commemoration of his life and work, The Mathematical Gazette 79, 456-470 (1995).

  17. E. Jakimowicz, A. Miranowicz (eds.): Stefan Banach - Remarkable life, Brilliant mathematics, Gdańsk University Press and Adam Mickiewicz University Press, 2007, pp. 133 (ISBN: 978-83-7326-451-9).

  18. Mark Kac: Enigmas of chance. An autobiography (New York, 1985).
  19. Roman Kałuża: Through reporter's eyes: The life of Stefan Banach (Birkäuser, Boston-Bazylea-Berlin, 1996, 2005).
    Roman Kałuża: Banach and Polish mathematics (in Japanese) (Springer Mathematics Club).
  20. Marek Kordos: The Scottish Book.
  21. Janusz Kowalski: Polish Mathematical Society, European Math. Soc. Newsletter, No. 54, 24-29 (2004).
  22. Kazimierz Kuratowski: A Half Century of Polish Mathematics: Remembrances and Reflections (Pergamon Press, Oxford and PWN, Warszawa, 1980).
  23. Sister Mary Grace Kuzawa: Modern Mathematics: The Genesis of a School in Poland (College and University Press, New Haven, 1968) 143 pages.
  24. S. Lal: Cardan and Banach: a comparative study, Math. Ed. 5 (2), 99-102 (1989).

  25. Lech Maligranda: Stefan Banach, in: "The Princeton Companion to Mathematics", editors T. Gowers, J. Barrow-Green and I. Leader (Princeton University Press, Princeton 2008) pp. 809-811.

  26. Edward Marczewski: Sur l'oeuvre scientifique de Stefan Banach II. Théorie des fonctions réeles et théorie de la mesure, Colloquium Math. 1, 93-102 (1948) [PDF]  (available on this website with the written permission of the publishers).
  27. Jeremy Noe: Stefan Banach (in English) [PDF] available at Bill Cherowitzo's web-site.
  28. Ludmila Nosareva: A matematical relic from Lvov (in Russian), Zerkalo Nedeli 26 (401), 2002.
  29. Władysław Orlicz: Sur l'oeuvre scientifique de Stefan Banach I. Théorie des opérations et théorie des séries orthogonales, Colloquium Math. 1, 81-92 (1948) [PDF]  (available on this website with the written permission of the publishers).
  30. Aleksander Pełczyński and Czesław Bessaga: Some Aspects of the Present Theory of Banach Spaces, in "Stefan Banach, Oeuvres" vol. 2, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa, 1979, p. 223-304. [PDF] is available at the ICM Virtual Library of Science. 
  31. Albrecht Pietsch: History of Banach Spaces and Linear Operators, Birkhäuser, Boston, Basel, Berlin, 2007.
  32. Józef Piórek: Polish Mathematical Society, European Mathematical Society Newsletter, No. 32, 17-18 (1999).
  33. Brailey Sims: A mathematical pilgrimage, Australian Mathematical Society Gazette 28, no 5, p. 232-236 (2001).
  34. Hugo Steinhaus: Souvenir de Stefan Banach, Colloquium Math. 1, 74-80 (1948) [PDF]  (available on this website with the written permission of the publishers).
  35. Hugo Steinhaus: Stefan Banach (in English), Studia Mathematica, Seria specjalna, z. 1, 7-15 (1963) [PDF]  (available on this website with the written permission of the publishers).
  36. Michał Szurek: The Polish School of Mathematics, English translation by Wiktor Bartol, Młody Technik 11, 27-33 (1978).
  37. Stanisław Ulam: Stefan Banach (1892-1945), Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 52, 600-603 (1946).
  38. Stanisław Ulam: Adventures of a Mathematician (USP, Berkeley, USA 1976, 1991).
    1st edition
    2nd edition
  39. Stan Wagon (ed.): The Banach-Tarski Paradox (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications) (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985).
  40. Monika Waksmundzka-Hajnos: Recollections of Stefan Greczek (available on this website with the written permission of the author).
  41. Dirk Werner: Die Polnische Schule Der Funktionalanalysis
  42. Norbert Wiener: I am a mathematician (Doubleday, New York 1956).
  43. Wiesław Żelazko: Stefan Banach (1892-1945) (in English), European Mathematical Society Newsletter 5, 23 (1992).

Laureates of the Stefan Banach Medal and Stefan Banach Award

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Your help would be most appreciated

Please let us know if you have access to the following articles or books by Stefan Banach:
  1. Any manuscripts of Banach's articles or books.
  2. Any translations of Banach's books not included in our list.

About this Site

This page is maintained by Emilia Jakimowicz (emilia@julia.univ.gda.pl) from University of Gdańsk and Adam Miranowicz (miran@amu.edu.pl) from University of Poznań in Poland.
We would appreciate any help in English translations of the articles and books stored at our Polish Home Page of Stefan Banach.
Please contact us if you have any comments, in particular if you know other comprehensive online resources on Stefan Banach.


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