Mathematician:Kazimierz Kuratowski

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

Pioneered, with and, the theory of Polish spaces.

Nationality
Polish

History

 * Born: 2 Feb 1896, Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland)
 * Died: 18 June 1980, Warsaw, Poland

Theorems and Definitions

 * Knaster-Kuratowski Fan (with )
 * Kuratowski Closure Axioms
 * Kuratowski's Lemma, also known as Kuratowski-Zorn Lemma and Zorn's Lemma (independently of )
 * Kuratowski's Theorem, also known as the Pontryagin-Kuratowski Theorem (independently of )
 * Tarski-Kuratowski Algorithm (with )
 * Kuratowski-Ulam Theorem (with )
 * Kuratowski's Closure-Complement Problem
 * Kuratowski's Free Set Theorem
 * Kuratowski Convergence of subsets of metric spaces
 * Painlevé-Kuratowski Convergence (with )

Publications

 * 1917: On the definitions in mathematics
 * 1920: Sur les continus indécomposable (with )
 * 1930: Sur le problème des courbes gauches en topologie
 * 1948: Topologie I, Espaces Métrisables, Espaces Complets (Topology I: Metric Spaces, Complete Spaces)
 * 1950: Topologie II, Espaces Compacts, Espaces Connexes, Plan Euclidien (Topology II: Compact Spaces, Connected Spaces, Euclidean Space)
 * 1948: Topologie I, Espaces Métrisables, Espaces Complets (Topology I: Metric Spaces, Complete Spaces)
 * 1950: Topologie II, Espaces Compacts, Espaces Connexes, Plan Euclidien (Topology II: Compact Spaces, Connected Spaces, Euclidean Space)

Also known as
His first name is sometimes Westernised as Casimir.