Juozas Banionis
Studia Historiae Scientiarum, 19 (2020), 2020, pp. 35-52
https://doi.org/10.4467/2543702XSHS.20.003.12559Samuel Dickstein founded the journal Wiadomości Matematyczne in Warszaw, of which he edited and published 47 volumes in the years 1897–1939. One of them (volume XXV, 1921) presented the scientific work (thesis) of the famous 19th century scholar and teacher – Ignacy Domeyko (1802–1889). It was written in 1822 to obtain a master’s degree in philosophy at University of Vilna (Wilno, now Vilnius). The original manuscript of I. Domeyko is has not been preserved.
This report reveals the circumstances and content of the master’s dissertation written by I. Domeyko.
Juozas Banionis
Technical Transactions, Fundamental Sciences Issue 1 NP (7) 2014, 2014, pp. 5-12
https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.14.055.2505The article introduces a German mathematician Otto Theodor Volk (1892‒1989), who worked as a professor at Lithuanian University in 1922–1930, and sheds light on his merits in the science of mathematics in Lithuania.
Juozas Banionis
Technical Transactions, Fundamental Sciences Issue 2-NP (20) 2015, 2015, pp. 5-12
https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.15.202.4407Bishop Antanas Baranauskas is a prominent personality in the history of the Lithuanian culture. He is well known not only as a profound theologian, a talented musician creating hymns, a literary classicist and an initiator of Lithuanian dialectology, but also as a distinguished figure in the science of mathematics. The author of this article turns his attention to the mathematical legacy of this prominent Lithuanian character and aspires to reveal the circumstances that encouraged bishop Antanas Baranauskas to undertake research in mathematics, to describe the influence of his achievements in the science of mathematics, to show the incentives that encouraged him to pursue mathematical research in Lithuania as well as to emphasize his search for a connection between mathematics and theology.