Samuel Dickstein (12 May 1851 – 28 September 1939) was a Polish

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of Jewish origin. He was one of the founders of the Jewish party ''Zjednoczenie'' ("the union"), which advocated the assimilation of Polish Jews. He was born in

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and was killed there by a German bomb at the beginning of

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. All the members of his family were murdered during the

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Work

Dickstein wrote many mathematical books and founded the journal ''Wiadomości Mathematyczne'' (''Mathematical News''), now published by the

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. He was a bridge between the times of

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and

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and those of the

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. He was also thanked by

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for contributing to the ''Bibliography of Quaternions'' (1904) published by the

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.A. Macfarlane (1904
Preface to ''Bibliography of Quaternions and Allied Systems of Mathematics''
via Internet Archive He was also one of the personalities, who contributed to the foundation of the Warsaw Public Library in 1907.

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* * Samuel Dickstein (1891)
Pojęcia i metody matematyki
(in Polish). University of Michigan. Wydawnictwo redakcyi, "Prac matematyczno -fizycznych,". 19th-century Polish mathematicians 20th-century Polish mathematicians 19th-century Polish Jews 1851 births 1939 deaths People from Congress Poland Mathematicians from the Russian Empire Academic staff of the University of Warsaw Scientists from Warsaw Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta Polish civilians killed in World War II Deaths by German airstrikes during World War II 20th-century Polish Jews {{Poland-mathematician-stub