Czesław Olech
{{Short description|Polish mathematician (1931–2015)}}
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Czesław Olech (22 May 1931 – 1 July 2015) was a Polish mathematician. He was a representative of the Kraków school of mathematics, especially the differential equations school of Tadeusz Ważewski.
Education and career
In 1954 he completed his mathematical studies at the Jagiellonian University, in Kraków obtained his doctorate at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 1958, habilitation in 1962, the title of associate professor in 1966, and the title of professor in 1973.
- 1970–1986: director of The Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences.
- 1972–1991: director of Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center in Warsaw.
- 1979–1986: member of the Executive Committee, International Mathematical Union.
- 1982–1983: president of the Organizing Committee, International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw,
- 1987–1989: president of the Board of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences.
- 1990–2002: president of the Scientific Council, Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Czeslaw Olech, often as a visiting professor, was invited by the world's leading mathematical centers in the United States, USSR (later Russia), Canada and many European countries. He cooperated with Solomon Lefschetz, Sergey Nikolsky, Philip Hartman and Roberto Conti, the most distinguished mathematicians involved in the theory of differential equations. Based on joint work with Hartman, he proved the Olech theorem. Lefschetz highly valued Ważewski's school, and especially the retract method, which Olech applied by developing, among other things, control theory. He supervised nine doctoral dissertations, and reviewed a number of theses and dissertations.{{cite web|url=http://www.impan.pl/Great/Olech/|title=Profesor Czeslaw Olech|publisher=|accessdate=17 July 2015}}
Main fields of research interest
- Contributions to ordinary differential equations:
- various applications of Tadeusz Ważewski topological method in studying asymptotic behaviour of solutions;
- exact estimates of exponential growth of solution of second-order linear differential equations with bounded coefficients;
- theorems concerning global asymptotic stability of the autonomous system on the plane with stable Jacobian matrix at each point of the plane, results establishing relation between question of global asymptotic stability of an autonomous system and that of global one-to-oneness of a differentiable map;
- contribution to the question whether unicity condition implies convergence of successive approximation to solutions of ordinary differential equations.
- Contribution to optimal control theory:
- establishing a most general version of the so-called bang-bang principle for linear control problem by detailed study of the integral of set valued map;
- existence theorems for optimal control problem with unbounded controls and multidimensional cost functions;
- existence of solution of differential inclusions with nonconvex right-hand side;
- characterization of controllability of convex processes.{{Cite web |url=https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdscien/own/documents/olechnew.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2020-03-15 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175745/http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_academies/acdscien/own/documents/olechnew.html |url-status=dead }}
Recognition
Honorary doctorates:
- Vilnius University 1989
- Jagiellonian University in Kraków 2006
- AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków 2009.
Membership of:
- PAN Polish Academy of Sciences (member of the Presidium),
- PAU Polish Academy of Arts when he was there he mastered the skill “I need the maxween
- Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Polish Mathematical Society
- European Mathematical Society
- American Mathematical Society{{cite web|url=http://www.impan.pl/Great/Olech/DHC-AGH/gorniewicz.html|title=Olech|publisher=|accessdate=17 July 2015}}
Awards and honours:
- State Prize of Poland 1st Class
- The Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Marin Drinov Golden Medal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- Bernard Bolzano Golden Medal, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences
- Stefan Banach Medal, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Mikołaj Kopernik Medal, Polish Academy of Sciences{{cite web|url=http://www.impan.pl/Great/Olech/DHC-AGH/pelczar.html|title=Olech|publisher=|accessdate=17 July 2015}}
Publications
- {{cite journal|doi=10.4064/ap-66-1-1-9|title=Włodzimierz Mlak (1931-1994)|year=1997|last1=Szafraniec|first1=F.|last2=Olech|first2=Cz.|last3=Janas|first3=J.|journal=Annales Polonici Mathematici|volume=66|pages=1–9|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1080/03081089308818260|title=Power-exact, nilpotent, homogeneous matrices|year=1993|last1=Meisters|first1=Gary H.|last2=Olech|first2=Czesław|journal=Linear and Multilinear Algebra|volume=35|issue=3–4|pages=225–236|s2cid=121224054 }}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1080/03081089108818109|title=Strong nilpotence holds in dimensions up to five only∗|year=1991|last1=Meisters|first1=Gary H.|last2=Olech|first2=Czeslaw|journal=Linear and Multilinear Algebra|volume=30|issue=4|pages=231–255}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0024-3795(91)90290-D|title=Almost N-matrices and linear complementarity|year=1991|last1=Olech|first1=C.|last2=Parthasarathy|first2=T.|last3=Ravindran|first3=G.|journal=Linear Algebra and Its Applications|volume=145|pages=107–125|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.4064/ap-51-1-249-254|title=A Jacobian condition for injectivity of differentiable plane maps|year=1990|last1=Olech|first1=Czesław|last2=Meisters|first2=Gary H.|journal=Annales Polonici Mathematici|volume=51|pages=249–254|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.4064/ap-51-1-7-13|title=Zdzisław Opial---a mathematician 1930--1974|year=1990|last1=Olech|first1=Czesław|last2=Lasota|first2=Andrzej|journal=Annales Polonici Mathematici|volume=51|pages=7–13|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite book|doi=10.1007/BFb0084932|chapter=The Lyapunov Theorem: Its extensions and applications|title=Methods of Nonconvex Analysis|series=Lecture Notes in Mathematics|year=1990|last1=Olech|first1=Czesraw|volume=1446|pages=84–103|isbn=978-3-540-53120-3}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF00945411|title=Onn-dimensional extensions of Fatou's lemma|year=1987|last1=Olech|first1=Czeslaw|s2cid=119939965|journal=Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Physik|volume=38|issue=2|pages=266–272|bibcode=1987ZaMP...38..266O}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1137/0324072|title=Controllability of Convex Processes|year=1986|last1=Aubin|first1=Jean-Pierre|last2=Frankowska|first2=Halina|last3=Olech|first3=Czesław|journal=SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization|volume=24|issue=6|pages=1192–1211|url=http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/2659/1/WP-85-041.pdf}}
- {{cite book|doi=10.1007/BFb0098812|chapter=Decomposability as a substitute for convexity|title=Multifunctions and Integrands|series=Lecture Notes in Mathematics|year=1984|last1=Olech|first1=Czesław|volume=1091|pages=193–205|isbn=978-3-540-13882-2}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0022-0396(82)90011-0|title=Boundary solutions of differential inclusion|year=1982|last1=Frankowska|first1=Halina|last2=Olech|first2=Czeslaw|journal=Journal of Differential Equations|volume=44|issue=2|pages=156–165|bibcode=1982JDE....44..156F|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF00934048|title=Weak lower semicontinuity of integral functionals|year=1976|last1=Olech|first1=C.|s2cid=121143492|journal=Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications|volume=19|pages=3–16}}
- {{cite book|doi=10.1016/B978-0-12-059650-8.50050-8|chapter=Existence Theory in Optimal Control Problems - the Underlying Ideas|title=International Conference on Differential Equations|year=1975|last1=Olech|first1=Czeslaw|pages=612–635|isbn=9780120596508}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1137/0312024|title=The Characterization of the Weak Closure of Certain Sets of Integrable Functions|year=1974|last1=Olech|first1=Czeslaw|journal=SIAM Journal on Control|volume=12|issue=2|pages=311–318}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0022-0396(69)90007-2|title=Existence theorems for optimal control problems involving multiple integrals|year=1969|last1=Olech|first1=Czełsaw|journal=Journal of Differential Equations|volume=6|issue=3|pages=512–526|bibcode=1969JDE.....6..512O|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1090/S0002-9947-1969-0234338-5|title=Existence theorems for optimal problems with vector-valued cost function|year=1969|last1=Olech|first1=Czesław|journal=Transactions of the American Mathematical Society|volume=136|pages=159|doi-access=free|hdl=2060/19680002338|hdl-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF01694009|title=On the range of an unbounded vector-valued measure|year=1968|last1=Olech|first1=Czesław|s2cid=29086435|journal=Mathematical Systems Theory|volume=2|issue=3|pages=251–256|hdl=2060/19680006853|hdl-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.4064/cm-19-2-285-293|title=Approximation of set-valued functions by continuous functions|year=1968|last1=Olech|first1=Czesław|journal=Colloquium Mathematicum|volume=19|issue=2|pages=285–293|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF02415111|title=On the stability properties of a third order system|year=1968|last1=Szegö|first1=G. P.|last2=Olech|first2=C.|last3=Cellina|first3=A.|s2cid=119973869|journal=Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata|volume=78|pages=91–103}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.7146/math.scand.a-10839|title=Characterizations of a Class of Convex Sets|year=1967|last1=Klee|first1=Victor|last2=Olech|first2=Czeslaw|journal=Mathematica Scandinavica|volume=20|pages=290|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.4064/cm-18-1-43-58|title=Monotonicity assumption in uniqueness criteria for differential equations|year=1967|last1=Pliś|first1=A.|last2=Olech|first2=C.|journal=Colloquium Mathematicum|volume=18|pages=43–58|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.4064/cm-16-1-137-139|title=On a system of integral inequalities|year=1967|last1=Olech|first1=C.|journal=Colloquium Mathematicum|volume=16|pages=137–139|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.4064/ap-18-2-131-139|title=An optimal solution of Nicoletti's boundary value problem|year=1966|last1=Olech|first1=C.|last2=Lasota|first2=A.|journal=Annales Polonici Mathematici|volume=18|issue=2|pages=131–139|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0022-0396(66)90064-7|title=Extremal solutions of a control system|year=1966|last1=Olech|first1=Czesław|journal=Journal of Differential Equations|volume=2|issue=1|pages=74–101|bibcode=1966JDE.....2...74O|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.5802/aif.164|title=Global phase- portrait of a plane autonomous system|year=1964|last1=Olech|first1=Czeslaw|journal=Annales de l'Institut Fourier|volume=14|pages=87–97|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.4064/ap-13-1-105-112|title=Integration of infinite systems of differential inequalities|year=1963|last1=Olech|first1=C.|last2=Mlak|first2=W.|journal=Annales Polonici Mathematici|volume=13|pages=105–112|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1215/S0012-7094-63-03008-4|title=Schlicht functions|year=1963|last1=Meisters|first1=G. H.|last2=Olech|first2=C.|journal=Duke Mathematical Journal|volume=30|pages=63–80}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.2307/1993939|jstor=1993939|title=On Global Asymptotic Stability of Solutions of Differential Equations|year=1962|last1=Hartman|first1=Philip|last2=Olech|first2=Czeslaw|journal=Transactions of the American Mathematical Society|volume=104|issue=1|pages=154–178}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.4064/ap-11-3-237-245|title=A connection between two certain methods of successive approximations in differential equations|year=1962|last1=Olech|first1=C.|journal=Annales Polonici Mathematici|volume=11|issue=3|pages=237–245|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.4064/ap-11-1-49-74|title=On the asymptotic coincidence of sets filled up by integrals of two systems of ordinary differential equations|year=1961|last1=Olech|first1=C.|journal=Annales Polonici Mathematici|volume=11|pages=49–74|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.4064/ap-8-1-61-63|title=A simple proof of a certain result of Z. Opial|year=1960|last1=Olech|first1=C.|journal=Annales Polonici Mathematici|volume=8|pages=61–63|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.4064/ap-7-3-247-254|title=Sur une inégalité différentielle|year=1960|last1=Opial|first1=Z.|last2=Olech|first2=C.|journal=Annales Polonici Mathematici|volume=7|issue=3|pages=247–254|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF02415206|title=Sur un problème de M. G. Sansone lié à la théorie du synchrotrone|year=1957|last1=Olech|first1=Czeslaw|s2cid=170536734|journal=Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata|volume=44|pages=317–329}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.4064/ap-3-2-189-199|title=Sur certaines propriétés des intégrales de l'équation y'=f(x,y) dont le second membre est doublement périodique|year=1957|last1=Olech|first1=C.|journal=Annales Polonici Mathematici|volume=3|issue=2|pages=189–199}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.4064/ap-1-1-176-183|title=Contribution à la théorie de la formule simpsonienne des quadratures approchées|year=1955|last1=Olech|first1=C.|last2=Gołąb|first2=Stanisław|journal=Annales Polonici Mathematici|volume=1|pages=176–183|doi-access=free}}
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