Mathematician:Karol Borsuk

Mathematician

Polish mathematician whose main interest was topology.

Nationality

Polish

History

• Born: 8 May 1905 in Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland)
• Died: 24 January 1982 in Warsaw, Poland

Theorems and Definitions

• Borsuk-Ulam Theorem (with Stanisław Marcin Ulam)
• Borsuk Null-Homotopy Lemma
• Borsuk's Conjecture

Results named for Karol Borsuk can be found here.

Publications

• 1950: Geometria analityczna w n wymiarach ("Multidimensional Analytic Geometry")
• 1955: Podstawy geometrii
• 1960: Foundations of Geometry (with Wanda Szmielew)
• 1967: Theory of Retracts
• 1975: Theory of Shape

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Karol Borsuk": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive