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Cech biography (1379 words) |
 | Cech was appointed extraordinary professor at Masaryk University in 1923. |
 | Cech was interested in geometry but he was appointed to the chair of analysis at Masaryk University since this had been Lerch's chair. |
 | Cech was influenced by the work of Aleksandrov and Urysohn and he set up a topology seminar at Brno in 1936 which went on to produce 26 papers in 3 years. |
| Cech (483 words) |
 | Eduard Cech's studied at the Charles University of Prague but these studies were interrupted by World War I and, although he went there in 1912, he could not graduate before 1920. |
 | Cech was then influenced by the work of Aleksandrov and Urysohn and he set up a topology seminar at Brno in 1936 which went on to produce 26 papers in 3 years. |
 | Cech, however, tried to continue the work of his seminar despite the War and it continued to meet at the house of one of his students until 1941. |