1. Mark up the correct dates of Stefan Banach birth and death.

    1892/03/30 - 1944/08/31     1892/03/20 - 1945/08/30

    1892/03/30 - 1945/08/31     1892/03/20 - 1944/08/31

  2. Fill in the gaps in the following sentences about Stefan Banach's life.
    Stefan Banach was born in the city of ....................... . In years 1892 - 1910 he lived in this city in ....................... street . He attended  eight-form Henryk Sienkiewicz Gymnasium No ....................... , located in  .......................street . In 1916 r. he met Hugon Steinhaus in Cracows's ....................... . In 1920 he left for ....................... . He died in this city and was buried at the  ....................... cemetery in ....................... family tomb.
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  3. Fill in the missing names and surnames of people related to Banach:
    RelationName and Surname
    Father ..........................................
    Mother ..........................................
    A woman who raised young Banach..........................................
    School mate - also famous mathematician..........................................
    Son ..........................................
    French photographer, family friend ..........................................
    Wife..........................................
    Professor at the Lwów Polytechnic, Banach was assistant to him..........................................
    Professor bacteriologist,
    Banach was working for him in 1941 - 1944
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  4. Fill in the gaps in sentences about Banach's studies and career:
    In 1910  Banach left for ........................ to study at ........................ . In the year........................ he gained a doctorate, and in the year........................  he habilitated and soon became a professor at the ........................ University in Lvov. In the year ........................  he was nominated to be a full professor. His thesis gave the birth of functional analysis in mathematics.
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  5. What are the titles of periodics, in which Banach published his mathematical works?
    In the 1919:.................................................................................
    In the 1920:.................................................................................
    Since the year 1929:.................................................................................
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  6. Write names and surnames of Polish Mathematical School representatives besides S. Banach.
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  7. Explain what was the Scottish Book? What is the origin of this title?
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  8. S. Banach was the author of school maths text books for primary and middle state schools. Solve one of problems stated by the author: "Create a magical square filling in empty cells with natural numbers from 1 to 6 so that the sum of numbers in each row, each column and each diagonal is the same and equal to 15."
    8    
        7
      9  
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  9. The city where S. Banach was born belonged at that time to:

    Polish State     Austro-Hungary     Secon Reich (Germany)     Russia

  10. In what year professor S. Banach was elected to a post of the president of Polish Mathematical Society?

    1932     1934     1936     1939

  11. What was the city where Banach delivered a lecture at International Mathematical Congress in 1936 r.?

    Oslo    Moscow     Vilnus     Paris

  12. Banach was a co-originator of Polish Mathematical Society. In which year was the founding meeting?

    1918    1919     1920     1921

  13. How many problems were jotted down in the Scottish book in years between 1935 and 1941?

    139    157     191     193

  14. Why S. Banach was not called into army?

    He was left-handed.     He was too intelligent.    

    He was a lame person.     He was a pacifist.

  15. In which country was S. Banach on sponsored scholarship in 1924/1925?

    Germany     France     Norway     USA

  16. How many foreign languages did S. Banach speak?

    2     3     4     5

  17. The New Scottich Book was carried on in the city:

    Warsaw     Lvov     Cracow     Wroclaw

  18. What was the cause of S. Banach's death?

    lung cancer     war wounds     work exhaustion     blood poisoning

  19. Describe circumstances of S. Banach's PhD exam.
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