A
brief history of the Faculty
The Faculty of Philosophy of Poznań University was established
on the 30th January 1919.It consisted of the Humanities and Exact and Natural Sciences
sections. The latter was turned into a separate Faculty
of Exact and Natural Sciences in the 1924/25 academic year.
After the war, professor Władysław Orlicz started reconstructing
the Poznań mathematics centre. He became head of the Chair
of Mathematics. In the 1961/62 academic year the chair was
divided into the Chair of Mathematics I, headed by Professor
Władysław Orlicz and the Chair of Mathematics II, headed
by Professor Andrzej Alexiewicz, Professor Orlicz's student
during the war.
In 1970 the authorities introduced a major change in the structure of Polish universities. In the wake of these changes the two Chairs of Mathematics together with the Chair of Logic were merged and turned into the new Institute of Mathematics. Its first head was professor Alexiewicz who held this post until his retirement in 1987. After that the Institute was headed by professor Mirosław Krzy¶ko (1987-1990) and professor Julian Musielak (1990-1993).
In 1993 the then Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (of which the Institute of Mathematics was a part) was divided and two separate faculties were established. The first of them was the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science and the second was the Faculty of Physics.
The first dean of the newly established Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science was appointed professor Michał Karoński (1993-1999). The next dean was professor Zbigniew Palka (1999-2005).
