29 Facts About Kazimierz Kuratowski

Kazimierz Kuratowski was one of the leading representatives of the Warsaw School of Mathematics.

Kazimierz Kuratowski worked as a professor at the University of Warsaw and at the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Kazimierz Kuratowski is primarily known for his contributions to set theory, topology, measure theory and graph theory.

Kazimierz Kuratowski was a son of Marek Kuratow, a barrister, and Roza Karzewska.

Kazimierz Kuratowski completed only one year of study when the outbreak of World War I precluded any further enrolment.

Kazimierz Kuratowski restarted his university education there the same year, this time in mathematics.

The second part of Kazimierz Kuratowski's thesis was devoted to continua irreducible between two points.

Kazimierz Kuratowski's thesis solved certain problems in set theory raised by a Belgian mathematician, Charles-Jean Etienne Gustave Nicolas, Baron de la Vallee Poussin.

Two years later, in 1923, Kazimierz Kuratowski was appointed deputy professor of mathematics at Warsaw University.

Kazimierz Kuratowski was then appointed a full professor of mathematics at Lwow Polytechnic in Lwow, in 1927.

Kazimierz Kuratowski was the head of the Mathematics department there until 1933.

In 1929, Kazimierz Kuratowski became a member of the Warsaw Scientific Society.

Kazimierz Kuratowski left Lwow for Warsaw in 1934, before the famous Scottish Book was begun, hence did not contribute any problems to it.

Kazimierz Kuratowski did however, collaborate closely with Banach in solving important problems in measure theory.

In February 1945, Kazimierz Kuratowski started to lecture at the reopened Warsaw University.

Kazimierz Kuratowski helped to establish the State Institute of Mathematics, which was incorporated into the Polish Academy of Sciences in 1952.

From 1948 until 1967 Kazimierz Kuratowski was director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and was a long-time chairman of the Polish and International Mathematics Societies.

Kazimierz Kuratowski served as vice-president of the International Mathematical Union as well as president of the Scientific Council of the State Institute of Mathematics.

Kazimierz Kuratowski was one of a celebrated group of Polish mathematicians who would meet at Lwow's Scottish Cafe.

Kazimierz Kuratowski was a president of the Polish Mathematical Society and a member of the Warsaw Scientific Society.

Furthermore, Kazimierz Kuratowski worked as an editor in the Polish Academy of Sciences Bulletin.

Kazimierz Kuratowski was one of the writers of the Mathematical monographs, which were created in cooperation with the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Kazimierz Kuratowski was an active member of many scientific societies and foreign scientific academies, including the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Kazimierz Kuratowski implemented the closure axioms.

Knaster and Kazimierz Kuratowski brought a comprehensive and precise study to connected components theory.

Kazimierz Kuratowski proved the Kazimierz Kuratowski-Zorn lemma in 1922.

Kazimierz Kuratowski represented Polish mathematics in the International Mathematical Union where he was vice president from 1963 to 1966.

Kazimierz Kuratowski was an honorary causa doctor at the Universities in Glasgow, Prague, Wroclaw, and Paris.

Kazimierz Kuratowski received the highest national awards, as well as a gold medal of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, and the Polish Academy of Sciences.