Warsaw School (mathematics)

The Warsaw mathematician school was next to the Krakow and Lvov mathematicians school one of the three centers of the so-called Polish mathematician school. The Warsaw school of mathematics was represented in the years 1915-1939 from the following mathematicians:

  • Karol Borsuk (1905-1982)
  • Samuel Eilenberg (1913-1998; along with Saunders MacLane he is regarded as 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)
  • Waclaw Sierpiński (1882-1969; outstanding contributions to set theory ( research on the axiom of choice and the ( generalized ) continuum hypothesis), number theory, theory of functions and topology)

This mathematician working at the University of Warsaw and Warsaw University of Technology. Her work focuses on forming set theory and topology.

Footnotes

  • Science and research in Poland
  • History of Mathematics
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