Stefan Mazurkiewicz was a Polish mathematician who worked in analysis, topology, and probability. He was a professor at the University of Warsaw and had many notable students. Karol Borsuk was a Polish mathematician who introduced important concepts in topology, like absolute retracts and cohomotopy groups. Zygmunt Janiszewski helped establish one of the strongest schools of mathematics in the world in Poland after World War I and proposed the influential mathematics journal Fundamenta Mathematicae. Stanisław Mazur was a Polish mathematician who made contributions to functional analysis and was a student and collaborator of Stefan Banach at the University of Lwów.