Zofia Pawlikowska-Brożek (1941--2023). In memoriam (Q6557239)

The article is a reminiscence of late Zofia Pawlikowska-Brożek that includes several biographical information. The reviewed paper concerns mainly the studies in mathematics of Pawlikowska-Brożek and several details on her PhD. Less is written about her work in the Committee for the History of Mathematics and Polish Schools on History of Mathematics. Some interesting photographs and copies of letters are included.\N\NZofia Pawlikowska-Brożek (1941--2023) was a historian of mathematics, a very important person for the creation and development of a professional community of historians of mathematics in Poland. In the years 1977--2000, she was the Chair of the Committee for the History of Mathematics of the Polish Mathematical Society. She was the initiator of Polish Schools on History of Mathematics (the first took place in 1986) and for many years the main organiser of these Schools.\N\NPawlikowska-Brożek graduated in mathematics at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 1963, and then started working in Mathematics Department at the AGH University at Kraków, where she worked up to 2008 (the year of her retirement). She obtained her PhD in mathematics from the Jagiellonian University in 1970. Her PhD dissertation concerned the mathematical achievements of Adam Adamandy Kochański, a Polish XVIIth-century mathematician. The dissertation was written under a supervision of Zdzisław Opial, a Polish eminent mathematician who obtained significant results in the theory of differential equations and, in fact, after WWII started serious scientific research in the history of mathematics in Poland.