In the history of mathematics, Witold Kazimierz Roter is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Witold Kazimierz Roter as Polish mathematician.
Witold Kazimierz Roter was born at Poland in 1932. His recorded nationality is Poland. He studied at University of Wrocław.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
His academic posts were held at University of Wrocław.
Mathematical work is judged by whether anyone can build on it, and that judgement takes decades.
That the work was done from Poland matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Witold Kazimierz Roter died in 2015, aged 83. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Wrocław
