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
- ↑ 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)