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Kazimierz Kuratowski
1896 – 1980
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryKazimierz Kuratowski was a Polish mathematician and logician. He was one of the leading representatives of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. He worked as a professor at the University of Warsaw and at the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Between 1946 and 1953, he served as President of the Polish Mathematical Society.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
February 2, 1896
Warsaw
Date of death
June 18, 1980
Warsaw
Citizenship
Poland · Russian Empire
Occupations & fields
mathematicianphilosophertopologistuniversity teacher
Awards & honours
Fellow of the Royal Society of EdinburghMedal of the 10th Anniversary of People's PolandWork Flag Order, 2nd classCommander of the Order of Polonia Restitutadoctor honoris causa from the University of ParisOrder of the Builders of People's Poland
Notable works
Kuratowski's theoremKnaster–Kuratowski–Mazurkiewicz lemmaKnaster–Kuratowski fanKuratowski embeddingKuratowski closure axiomsKuratowski and Ryll-Nardzewski measurable selection theorem
- Field and occupation
- poľský matematik
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