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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Atkinson

Who was Stefan Banach and why is Google celebrating him?

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Friday’s Google Doodle was dedicated to the “invaluable contribution” of influential 20th century mathematician Stefan Banach to the study.

Banach was an original member of the Lwów School of Mathematics and founder of modern functional analysis - described by Britannica as a “branch of mathematical analysis dealing with functionals, or functions of functions”.

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