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    Hugo Dyonizy Steinhaus (Polish: [ˈxuɡɔ ˈʃtaɪ̯nˌhaʊ̯s]; English: /ˈhjuːɡoʊ ˈstaɪnˌhaʊs/; 14 January 1887 – 25 February 1972) was a Polish mathematician...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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