Warsaw School of Mathematicians

The Warsaw School of Mathematicians was one of the three centers of the so-called Polish School of Mathematicians , along with the Kraków and Lviv Schools of Mathematicians . The Warsaw school of mathematics was in the years 1915 - 1939 represented by the following mathematicians:

• Karol Borsuk (1905-1982)
• Samuel Eilenberg (1913–1998; together with Saunders MacLane he is considered the founder of category theory )
• Zygmunt Janiszewski (1888–1920)
• Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896–1980)
• Stanisław Leśniewski (1886–1939)
• Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1888–1945)
• Stanisław Saks (1897–1942)
• Wacław Sierpiński (1882–1969; outstanding contributions to set theory (studies on the axiom of choice and the (generalized) continuum hypothesis ), number theory , function theory and topology)

These mathematicians worked at Warsaw University and Warsaw University of Technology . The main focus of her work was set theory and topology .

Footnotes

1. ↑ The Polish School of Mathematics ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Polish)