Jan Waszkiewicz (June 24, 1944 – March 25, 2021) was a Polish politician and regional official, academic, and marshal of the

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. He graduated from the University of Wrocław in 1966. After graduating, he worked at the Pedagogical University in

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, then moved to the

Wrocław University Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central ...

, where he worked until 1969. For the next three years he was a doctoral student at the Institute of Mathematics,

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in Warsaw. He obtained his doctorate from Institute of Mathematics of the

in 1972, based on the work ''On the theory of products of generalized relational systems'' written under the direction

Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski (; 7 October 1926 – 18 September 2015) was a Polish mathematician. Life and career Born in Wilno, Second Polish Republic (now Vilnius, Lithuania), he was a student of Hugo Steinhaus. At the age of 26 he became profe ...

. In 1972, he returned to

Wrocław Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...

and started working at the

Wrocław University of Technology Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Eu ...

. In 1990, he also defended the dissertation ''Cultural dependencies of the genesis of mathematics'' before the council of the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the

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, obtaining the degree of habilitated doctor. His papers are referenced in the mathematical databases. From 2001, he was a professor at the Institute of Organization and Management of the

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. Waszkiewicz was recognized by the Samuel Dickstein Prize of Polish Mathematical Society Between 1979 and 1990 he was the chief co-editor, together with

Kornel Morawiecki Kornel Andrzej Morawiecki (3 May 1941 – 30 September 2019) was a Polish politician, the founder and leader of Fighting Solidarity (Polish: ''Solidarność Walcząca''), one of the splinters of the Solidarity movement in Poland during the 1980 ...

of the anti-communist

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'' Biuletyn Dolnośląski''. Waszkiewicz died of

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on March 25, 2021, during the

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