Mazurkiewicz

Stefan Mazurkiewicz

Born: 25 Sept 1888 in Warsaw, Poland
Died: 19 June 1945 in Grodzisk, Mazowiecki (near Warsaw), Poland

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Mazurkiewicz's Ph.D. was supervised by Sierpinski on space filling curves. Then, in 1915, he became professor at Warsaw where he remained until his death.

His main work was in topology and the theory of probability. His notion of dimension of a compact set preceded that of Menger and Urysohn by 7 years. Mazurkiewicz applied topological methods to the theory of functions, obtaining powerful results.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. C Kuratowski, Stefan Mazurkiewicz et son oeuvre scientifique, Fundamenta mathematicae 34 (1947), 316-331.
  3. S Mazurkiewicz, Travaux de topologie et ses applications (Warsaw, 1969). 
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