Google Doodle is celebrating the member of the Lwów School of Mathematics and founder of modern functional analysis, Stefan Banach who become an influential 20th-century professor in mathematics on this day in 1922.
Stefan Banach was from Kraków, Poland, and served as a teacher in local schools during World War 1. He was not selected for the military due to his weak eyesight. He was mostly a self-taught mathematician and published papers in mathematics in his spare time. Later he took a job at Lviv Technical University and he met with a distinguishable mathematician and educator named Hugo Steinhaus who was also the founder of game and probability theory.
Stefan Banach along with Steinhaus’ academic connections founded modern functional analysis which is a new radical branch of mathematics giving rise to Banach spaces, Banach algebra, and the Banach-Steinhaus theorem.
He was a member of the school of mathematics in Lviv, Ukraine changing the educational atmosphere completely with his interactive teaching methods. He has majorly contributed to the theory of topological vector spaces, measure theory, integration, the theory of sets, orthogonal series, and functional analysis.
Google’s Doddle celebration of Banach has reached countries such as Iceland, the U.K., Sweden, Poland, Greece, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand. Stefan Banach is known to be a well-known figure in these countries for his contribution to the sector of education to this day.
