Bujakiewicz-Korońska, Renata; Koroński, Jan The Cracovian calculus and other mathematical ideas of Tadeusz Banachiewicz. (Polish. English, German summaries) Zbl 1027.01502 Zesz. Nauk. Politech. Śląsk. 1287, Mat.-Fiz. 76, 23-46 (1996). Summary: The paper is an extended version of the lecture delivered at the Conference on History of Mathematics held in May 1994 in Rudy Raciborskie. It is a presentation of some information about the Cracovian calculus and on other mathematical ideas of Tadeusz Banachiewicz (1882–1954). The first part of this paper contains a detailed biography and other information about Tadeusz Banachiewicz. In the second part the Cracovian calculus and his other mathematical ideas are presented [see T. Banachiewicz, Rachunek krakowianowy z zastosowaniami, PAN, Komitet Astronomiczny, PWN, Warszawa (1959)]. Archival material of the Astronomical Institute of Jagiellonian University is used. MSC: 01A70 Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies 01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century 15-03 History of linear algebra 17-03 History of nonassociative rings and algebras Keywords:Biography Biographic References: Banachiewicz, Tadeusz PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{R. Bujakiewicz-Korońska} and \textit{J. Koroński}, Zesz. Nauk. Politech. Śląsk. Mat.-Fiz. 1287(76), 23--46 (1996; Zbl 1027.01502)