Andrzej Bobola Maria Schinzel (5 April 1937[1] – 21 August 2021[2]) was a Polish mathematician studying mainly number theory.

Schinzel received an MSc in 1958 at Warsaw University, Ph.D. in 1960 from Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences where he studied under Wacław Sierpiński,[3] with a habilitation in 1962.

[4] Schinzel was a professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IM PAN).

He also proved Schinzel's theorem on the existence of circles through any given number of integer points.

Schinzel was the author of over 200 research articles in various branches of number theory, including elementary, analytic and algebraic number theory.