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Otton Nikodym

lived from 1887 to 1974

Otton Nikodym was one of the founders of 'Polish mathematics' between the two World Wars. He spent the last part of his life in America and is known for his work on measure theory and functional analysis, especially for the Radon-Nikodym theorem.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Nikodym/