Warszawa Chopina (Chopin’s Warsaw) – Video
Chopin’s Warsaw is a filmic journey around the city of Warsaw in the company of Frycek. That’s the name that was given to Fryderyk Chopin in his youth by his friends and family. See Warsaw, past and present, through his eyes. Discover the city where Poland’s greatest composer spent his youth.
“The Soviet Story” – Video Documentary
“The Soviet Story” is a startling document of cooperation with the Gestapo, the NKVD before the year 1941. The film tells the story of Soviet domestic terror, the killing of its citizens “on an industrial scale, artificially induced by the Great Famine in Ukraine (Holodomor) of a murder at Katyn.
Gene Bak award celebration continued with the roar of a Tiger
After Eugene Bak was presented with the Knights Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland on April 20th, his two sons celebrated with him by taking him on a spring golf tour. The festivities started with a day at Firestone Country Club on Sunday and then moved on Monday to Oakmont […]
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw
A winter walk in Warsaw. Actually, a visit to just one site, but an important one – Plac Józef Piłsudski, or Józef Piłsudski Square. A colonnade, damaged during the war, rises from the square, a fragment of the fomer Saski Palace. An eternal flame and an honor guard of soldiers stands before it. Every Pole […]
Polish Mathematics in World Science
In the last issue of the Forum, we published the first part of this history of mathematics in Poland. The article below continues the topic with a description of the influence of Polish mathematics on world science. In any discussion of mathematics in Poland, one has to mention Professor J. Łukasiewicz, who created multi-valued logic. […]