TY - JOUR
TI - How French Mathematicians Learned about What Happened to their Polish Colleagues During WW2
AU - Jaëck, Frédéric
AU - Mazliak, Laurent
AU - Murawski, Roman
TI - How French Mathematicians Learned about What Happened to their Polish Colleagues During WW2
AB - This article presents an exchange of letters between Wacław Sierpiński and Paul Montel during the year 1945. This correspondence, translated here into English, provides insight into how and in what form the French learned about the dramatic fate of many Polish mathematician colleagues during the war. We also give a short biography of the two protagonists, as well as some facts about the mathematicians mentioned in the letters.
VL - 2021
IS - Volume 53
PY - 2021
SN - 0078-6500
C1 - 2657-5337
SP - 29
EP - 53
DO - 10.4467/00786500.ORG.21.002.14787
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/organon/article/how-french-mathematicians-learned-about-what-happened-to-their-polish-colleagues-during-ww2
KW - WW2
KW - Montel
KW - Sierpiński
KW - Polish School of Mathematics