Mathematician:Zygmunt Janiszewski

Mathematician

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

Publications

• 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.

Sources

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