Mathematician:Bronisław Knaster

Polish mathematician best known for his discovery, in 1922, of the so-called hereditarily indecomposable continuum, otherwise known as the pseudo-arc, and the Knaster continuum, otherwise known as the buckethandle continuum.

Nationality
Polish

History

 * Born: 22 May 1893, Warsaw
 * Died: 3 Nov 1980, Wrocław

Theorems and Definitions

 * Knaster-Tarski Lemma (with Alfred Tarski)
 * Knaster-Tarski Theorem (with Alfred Tarski)
 * Knaster-Kuratowski Fan (with Kazimierz Kuratowski)
 * Knaster's Condition
 * Knaster Continuum