Stefan Banach was a Polish mathematician who is generally considered one of the 20th century's most important and influential mathematicians. He was the founder of modern functional analysis, and an original member of the Lwów School of Mathematics. His major work was the 1932 book, Théorie des opérations linéaires, the first monograph on the general theory of functional analysis.
Stefan Banach
Otto Nikodym and Stefan Banach Memorial Bench in Kraków, Poland (sculpted by Stefan Dousa)
Scottish Café, meeting place of many famous Lwów mathematicians
Banach's grave, Lychakiv Cemetery, Lviv (Lwów, in Polish)
The Gorals, also known as the Highlanders are an ethnographic subgroup primarily found in their traditional area of southern Poland, northern Slovakia, and in the region of Cieszyn Silesia in the Czech Republic, where they are known as the Silesian Gorals. There is also a significant Goral diaspora in the area of Bukovina in western Ukraine and in northern Romania, as well as in Chicago, the seat of the Polish Highlanders Alliance of North America.
A Goral with bagpipes from the region of Podhale in Poland
Zbójnicy, colored wood engraving by Władysław Skoczylas
Gorals from Zakopane (1967)
Young Gorals of the Beskid Mountains (Żywiec)