Mathematician:Zygmunt Janiszewski

Polish mathematician whose work was mainly in topology.

Co-founded the journal Fundamenta Mathematicae but died of influenza before its first issue.

Nationality
Polish

History

 * Born: 12 June 1888, Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland)
 * Died: 3 Jan 1920 in Lvov, Poland

Books and Papers

 * 1911: Sur les continus irréductibles entre deux points
 * 1913: On cutting the plane by continua
 * 1916: On realism and idealism in mathematics (on the Axiom of Choice: the "realist" school did not accept the AoC, the "idealist" school did)
 * 1918: On the needs of mathematics in Poland (in the first volume of Polish Science: Its Needs, Organisation, and Development)
 * 1920: Sur les continus indécomposable (with Kazimierz Kuratowski)


 * Played a major role in the setting up of the journal Fundamenta Mathematicae, the first issue of which appeared in 1920, after his death from influenza.

Notable Quotes

 * "It is true that a mathematician does not require laboratories of complex and expensive auxiliary devices."