Mathematician:Bronisław Knaster

Mathematician

Polish mathematician best known for his discovery, in 1922, of the so-called hereditarily indecomposable continuum, otherwise known as the pseudo-arc, and the Knaster continuum, otherwise known as the buckethandle continuum.

Nationality

Polish

History

• Born: 22 May 1893, Warsaw
• Died: 3 Nov 1980, Wrocław

Theorems and Definitions

• Knaster-Tarski Lemma (with Alfred Tarski)
• Knaster-Tarski Theorem (with Alfred Tarski)
• Knaster-Kuratowski Fan (with Kazimierz Kuratowski)
• Knaster's Condition
• Knaster Continuum

Results named for Bronisław Knaster can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Bronisław Knaster can be found here.

Publications

• 1922: Un continu dont tout sous-continu est indécomposable (Fund. Math. Vol. 3: pp. 247 – 286)
• 1928: Un théorème sur les fonctions d'ensembles (Ann. Soc. Polon. Math Vol. 6: pp. 133 – 134) (with Alfred Tarski)