He is a representative of the Kraków school of mathematics, especially the differential equations school of Tadeusz Ważewski.

Polish science in the interbellum was renowned for its mathematicians - see Lwów School of Mathematics, Kraków School of Mathematics, and Warsaw School of Mathematics.

Kazimierz Żorawski, along with Stanislaw Zaremba, (both faculty members of Jagiellonian University) was a cofounder of the Kraków School of Mathematics, to which professors Franciszek Leja, Wladyslaw Slebodzinski and Tadeusz Wazewski also belonged.