Mathematician:Kazimierz Kuratowski

Polish mathematician whose work was mainly in topology and metric spaces.

Pioneered, with Alfred Tarski and Wacław Sierpiński the theory of Polish spaces.

Nationality
Polish

History

 * Born: February 2, 1896
 * Died: June 18, 1980

Theorems and Definitions

 * Kuratowski Closure Axioms
 * Kuratowski-Zorn Lemma (also known as Zorn's Lemma)
 * Kuratowski's Theorem
 * Tarski-Kuratowski Algorithm (with Alfred Tarski)
 * Kuratowski's Closure-Complement Problem
 * Kuratowski's Free Set Theorem
 * Kuratowski Convergence of subsets of metric spaces

Books and Papers

 * 1917: On the definitions in mathematics
 * 1920: Sur les continus indécomposable (with [ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Zygmunt Janiszewski|Zygmunt Janiszewski]])
 * 1948: Topologie I, Espaces Métrisables, Espaces Complets (Topology I: Metric Spaces, Complete Spaces)
 * 1950: Topologie II, Espaces Compacts, Espaces Connexes, Plan Euclidien (Topologie II, Compact Spaces, Connected Spaces, Euclidean Space)