Mathematician:Edward Marczewski

Mathematician

Polish mathematician who worked in mainly in the fields of measure theory, descriptive set theory, general topology, probability theory and universal algebra.

Nationality

Polish

History

• Born: 15 Nov 1907, Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland)
• Died: 17 Oct 1976, Wrocław, Poland

Theorems and Definitions

• Szpilrajn Extension Theorem

Results named for Edward Marczewski can be found here.

Publications

• 1937: Edward Szpilrajn: La dimension et la mesure (Fund. Math. Vol. 28: pp. 81 – 89)

Also known as

Name at birth: Edward Szpilrajn. It was changed in $1940$, so results attributed to him before then bear the name Szpilrajn.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Edward Marczewski": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive