Facts from the life of Stefan Banach - sample questions

  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. Stefan 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
    Second 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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