It is with deep sorrow that we announce that Professor Tadeusz Figiel passed away in Gdańsk on 8 September 2025, aged 77.
A legendary figure of the Polish school of functional analysis, Professor Figiel was an invited lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw in 1983, a recipient of the Stefan Banach Prize of the Polish Mathematical Society, and the Banach Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He worked for many years at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IMPAN), where he also served as head of the Gdańsk branch and as a member of the Institute’s directorate. For many years, he was editor-in-chief of Studia Mathematica and a member of Division III of the Warsaw Scientific Society.
The funeral will take place on Wednesday, 17 September at 12 noon at the Srebrzysko Cemetery in Gdańsk.
Prof. Tadeusz Figiel (1948-2025)