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Encyclopedia > Casimir Kuratowski

Kazimierz Kuratowski (born February 2, 1896, Warsaw, died June 18, 1980, Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician.


Among his contributions to mathematics are:

External links

  • Biography of Kuratowski (http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Kuratowski.html)













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When Kuratowski was nine years old the policy of Russian schooling was softened, but although Polish language schools were allowed, a student could not proceed from such a secondary school to university without taking the Russian examinations as an external candidate.
Kuratowski was appointed as a professor at the Technical University of Lvov in 1927.
Kuratowski was appointed the Director of the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1949.
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In 1921 Kuratowski was awarded his doctorate, but sadly one of his supervisors Janiszewski had died in 1920.
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