Stanisław Gołąb Explained

Stanisław Gołąb
Birth Date:	July 26, 1902
Birth Place:	Travnik
Death Place:	Kraków
Nationality:	Polish
Fields:	Mathematics
Workplaces:	Jagiellonian University
Alma Mater:	Jagiellonian University
Doctoral Advisor:	Stanisław Zaremba
Doctoral Students:	Marek Kuczma

Stanisław Gołąb (July 26, 1902 – April 30, 1980) 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 respect to a given metric 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.^[1]

Selected works

• S. Gołąb: Quelques problèmes métriques de la géometrie de Minkowski, Trav. de l'Acad. Mines Cracovie 6 (1932), 1–79
• Golab, S., Über einen algebraischen Satz, welcher in der Theorie der geometrischen Objekte auftritt, Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie 2 (1974) 7–10.
• Golab, S.; Swiatak, H.: Note on Inner Products in Vector Spaces. Aequationes Mathematicae (1972) 74.
• Golab, S.: Über das Carnotsche Skalarprodukt in schwach normierten Vektorräumen. Aequationes Mathematicae 13 (1975) 9–13.
• Golab, S., Sur un problème de la métrique angulaire dans la géometrie de Minkowski, Aequationes Mathematicae (1971) 121.
• Golab, S., Über die Grundlagen der affinen Geometrie., Jahresbericht DMV 71 (1969) 138–155.

External links

• List of Golab's articles at U. of Göttingen, Germany

Notes and References

1. For more details on the topic, see the entry "Unit disc".