Andrzej Samek (1924–2018) – Obituary

Andrzej Nowak

The uses and abuses of history are many. Most of them stem from the search for power rather than the truth. In a post-totalitarian country, the misremembered past may be used both against the previous regime and in its defense. From the perspective of “pure scholarship” both cases are deplorable, but the latter seems more obviously dangerous. Here we examine a few examples of this tendency in c...

Andrzej Ros Lanowski And

We prove that two basic questions on outer measure are undecid-able. First we show that consistently • every sup-measurable function f : R 2 −→ R is measurable. The interest in sup-measurable functions comes from differential equations and the question for which functions f : R 2 −→ R the Cauchy problem y ′ = f (x, y), y(x 0) = y 0 has a unique almost-everywhere solution in the class AC l (R) o...

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Mrs. Meiklejohn, of St. Paul's, Upper Maze M, Ston January 29th. Her life was spent for the weitare ? many parents could testify to the devotion w i ^ defective children, and She was the first to realise the special _n country. For many years she she opened the first home for such children in defective children, and of was the Principal of this home, and of a home 10 wQmen> another home for dif...

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Donkin was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and thence went to Queen's College, Oxford, as an open scholar, graduating in the first class of the Classical Tripos. He graduated as M.B., Oxon, in 1873, and became a F.R.C.P. Lon. in 1880, and during his active professional life held many important appointments and was Harveian Orator in 1910. He was physician and lecturer on Medicine at W...