Jan Mycielski

Jan Mycielski ( born February 7, 1932 in Wisniowa, Poland ) is a Polish- American mathematician.

Mycielski in 1957 at the University of Breslau his doctorate under Stanisław Hartman ( application of free groups on geometric constructions ). After that, he was in 1957/58 in Paris as a scientist of the CNRS from 1958 to 1963 at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 1961/62, as a guest professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1967 a visiting professor at Case Western Reserve University before 1969, he was professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. At the same time he was in 1968 appointed professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is now Professor Emeritus in Boulder. He has been a visiting scientist and visiting professor at IHES, at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Warsaw and the University of Hawaii.

He deals with many areas of mathematics, including graph theory, algebra, game theory, topology of three-dimensional manifolds, set theory, mathematical logic, philosophy of mathematics.

In 1959, he married Emilia Przezdziecka. Since 1975 he is a U.S. citizen. 1965 January Mycielski was awarded the Stefan Banach Prize. Since 1984 he was editor of Fundamenta Mathematicae and since 1971 of Algebra Universalis. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.