Bronislaw Knaster
Bronisław Knaster (born May 22, 1893 in Warsaw , † November 3, 1980 in Wrocław ) was a Polish mathematician .
Knaster received his doctorate in 1923 under Stefan Mazurkiewicz in Warsaw and completed his habilitation two years later. After a few years in Italy, he returned to Warsaw. From 1939 he taught at the University of Lwów . He moved to Wrocław in 1945 . In 1963 he was awarded the 1st class state prize.
Knaster's main area of work was topology , to which he made fundamental contributions. He became particularly known for the construction of various examples with unusual properties. This includes the Knaster continuum named after him and the pseudo-arc , the first example of a hereditary, indivisible continuum . The fixed point theorem from Tarski and Knaster is named after him and Tarski .
literature
- Roman Duda: Life and Work of Bronisław Knaster (1893-1980). Colloquium Mathematicum, Volume 51, pp. 85-102, 1987.
- Janusz Charatonik: The Works of Bronislaw Knaster (1893-1980) in Continuum Theory , in: CE Aull, R. Lowen (Eds.), Handbook of the History of General Topology, Volume 1, Springer 1997
Web links
- Literature by and about Bronisław Knaster in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Bronisław Knaster. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Knaster, Bronislaw |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warsaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd November 1980 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |