KAZIMIERZ URBANIK (1930-2005)
Zbigniew J. Jurek
Jan Rosiński
Wojbor A. Woyczyński
Kazimierz Urbanik, the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of this journal, and Professor Emeritus
of Mathematics at Wrocaw University, died of cancer Sunday, May 29, 2005, at the age of
75. His research, teaching and administrative work was decisive in creation of a major school
in probability theory in Poland. Born in Krzemieniec in Eastern Poland, following the
end of World War II and transfer of the city to Western Ukraine, he moved with
his family to the western Polish territory of Lower Silesia, where he lived for the
next sixty years, almost all of them in the regional capital city of Wrocaw. (...)