Roman Żuliński belongs to the mathematical record as a figure whose results outlasted the problems that prompted them.
The record lists Roman Żuliński as Polish mathematician, co-commander of the January Uprising.
Roman Żuliński was born in 1837. His recorded nationality is Congress Poland.
The nineteenth century made mathematics rigorous: definitions were tightened, foundations questioned, and whole fields created from scratch.
Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
That the work was done from Congress Poland matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Roman Żuliński died in 1864, aged 27. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
