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: 30 March 1892, Ostrowsko, near Kraków, Austria-Hungary (now Poland)
 * Died: 31 Aug 1945, Lvov, (now Ukraine)

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