biography
pronunciation:
[serpinskee]
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| lived:
| (1882–1969)
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| biography:
| Mathematician, born in Warsaw, Poland. He studied at Warsaw University, where he became professor of mathematics (1919–60). The leader of the Polish school of set theorists and topologists, he was a prolific author, publishing more than 700 research papers on set theory, topology, number theory, and logic, and several books. In 1919 he founded the still-important journal Fundamenta mathematicae to publish work in these areas. |
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