Kazimierz Kuratowski

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Kazimierz Kuratowski was a prominent Polish mathematician best known for his foundational work in topology and set theory, including Kuratowski's closure axioms and Kuratowski's theorem on planar graphs.

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instanceOf human
mathematician
set theorist
topologist
academicDegree PhD in mathematics
awardReceived Order of Polonia Restituta
birthCountry Poland
birthDate 1896-02-02
birthPlace Warsaw
countryOfCitizenship Poland
deathCountry Poland
deathDate 1980-06-18
deathPlace Warsaw
doctoralAdvisor Stanisław Mazurkiewicz
Wacław Sierpiński
educatedAt Sorbonne University
surface form: University of Paris

University of Warsaw
employer Polish Academy of Sciences
University of Warsaw
era 20th-century mathematics
ethnicGroup Poles
familyName Kazimierz Kuratowski self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kuratowski
fieldOfWork graph theory
mathematics
set theory
topology
givenName Kazimierz
hasAxiomSystem Kuratowski closure axioms
hasTheoremNamedAfter Kuratowski’s closure-complement problem
Kuratowski’s theorem on planar graphs
surface form: Kuratowski’s theorem
influenced Polish School of Mathematics
surface form: Polish school of mathematics
languageOfWorkOrName French
Polish
memberOf Polish Academy of Sciences
Polish Mathematical Society
name Kazimierz Kuratowski self-link
notableFor Kuratowski closure axioms
Kuratowski–Zorn lemma (attribution as Zorn’s lemma variant)
Kuratowski’s theorem on planar graphs
foundational work in set theory
foundational work in topology
notableWork Introduction to Set Theory and Topology
Topologie I
Topologie II
positionHeld director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
professor of mathematics
studentOf Stanisław Mazurkiewicz
Wacław Sierpiński
workLocation Warsaw

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Lwów School of Mathematics hasMember Kazimierz Kuratowski
Stefan Mazurkiewicz notableStudent Kazimierz Kuratowski
Stefan Mazurkiewicz influenced Kazimierz Kuratowski
Kazimierz Kuratowski name Kazimierz Kuratowski self-link
Kazimierz Kuratowski familyName Kazimierz Kuratowski self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kuratowski
Polish School of Mathematics notableMember Kazimierz Kuratowski
Bronisław Knaster influencedBy Kazimierz Kuratowski
Karol Borsuk doctoralAdvisor Kazimierz Kuratowski