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Waclaw Sierpinski
www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/../Sierpinski.html
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2,185 words |
Sierpinski's lived through various foreign occupations of Poland and two world wars. The article melds descriptions of his mathematical work and many achievements with those of how he responded to and coped to the various adverse events that affected life during his lifetime. |
Polish School of Mathematics
www.math.wfu.edu/~kuz/../PolishSchool.htm#Sierpinski
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220 words |
A short biographical sketch placing Sierpinski in the context of the larger 20th century flowering of Polish mathematics and the longer article desribing it. |
Polish Mathematicians on stamps
info-poland.buffalo.edu/../stamps/link.shtml
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120 words
6 images |
A philatelic tribute to the leaders of the 20th century flowering of mathematics in Poland |
| Waclaw Sierpinski
www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/../Si.html
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690 words |
A brief biographical account which indicates the areas of mathematics Sierpinski tackled and stresses the leadership role he assumed among Polish mathematicians. |
Waclaw Sierpinski (1882-1969)
ecademy.agnesscott.edu/~lriddle/../sierbio.htm
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230 words |
A short biographical sketch and several pages illustrating ways of generating fractals. These include Sierpinski Gasket or triangle, Sierpinski Carpet, and Sierpinski Pentagon as well as a Fractal Poem
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Waclaw Sierpinski
www.numbertheory.org/../sierpinski/
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13 webpages |
Obituary --reproduced from Acta Arithmetica 21 (1972) 1-13 |
Waclaw Sierpinski, mathematician
angelfire.com/scifi2/rsolecki
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1,870 words |
A biography by Prof. Roman Solecki |
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Waclaw Sierpinski 6.00 zl stamp
jeff560.tripod.com/sierpin.jpg
Waclaw Sierpinski 6.00 zl stamp
www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/../stamp_sierpinski.jpg
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Portrait of Sierpinski created using graph paper |
