ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Zygmunt Janiszewski
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Polish mathematician whose work was mainly in topology.
Co-founded the journal Fundamenta Mathematicae but died of influenza before its first issue.
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Nationality
Polish
History
- Born: 12 June 1888, Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland)
- Died: 3 Jan 1920 in Lvov, Poland
Theorems and Definitions
Books and Papers
- 1911: Sur les continus irréductibles entre deux points
- 1913: On cutting the plane by continua
- 1916: On realism and idealism in mathematics (on the Axiom of Choice: the "realist" school did not accept the AoC, the "idealist" school did)
- 1918: On the needs of mathematics in Poland (in the first volume of Polish Science: Its Needs, Organisation, and Development)
- 1920: Sur les continus indécomposable (with Kazimierz Kuratowski)
- Played a major role in the setting up of the journal Fundamenta Mathematicae, the first issue of which appeared in 1920, after his death from influenza.
Also see
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Zygmunt Janiszewski": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
Notable Quotes
- "It is true that a mathematician does not require laboratories of complex and expensive auxiliary devices."
