Biography:Bronisław Knaster
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Short description: Polish mathematician
Bronisław Knaster | |
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 Bronisław Knaster | |
| Born | 22 May 1893 |
| Died | 3 November 1980 (aged 87) Wrocław, Poland |
| Nationality | Poland |
| Alma mater | University of Wrocław |
| Known for | KKM lemma |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Wrocław |
| Doctoral advisor | Stefan Mazurkiewicz |
Bronisław Knaster (22 May 1893 – 3 November 1980) was a Polish mathematician; from 1939 a university professor in Lwów and from 1945 in Wrocław.[1]
He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum.[2] Together with his teacher Hugo Steinhaus and his colleague Stefan Banach, he also developed the last diminisher procedure for fair cake cutting.[3]:2
Knaster received his Ph.D. degree from University of Warsaw in 1922. under the supervision of Stefan Mazurkiewicz.[4]
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References
- ↑ Duda, Roman (1987), "Life and work of Bronisław Knaster (1893–1980)", Colloquium Mathematicum 51: 85–102, doi:10.4064/cm-51-1-85-102, http://yadda.icm.edu.pl/yadda/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-69a95ad6-4028-4be9-85b5-80650c7ce492/c/cm51_1_07.pdf.
- ↑ Charatonik, Janusz J. (1997), "The works of Bronisław Knaster (1893–1980) in continuum theory", Handbook of the history of general topology, Vol. 1, Kluwer Acad. Publ., Dordrecht, pp. 63–78, doi:10.1007/978-94-017-0468-7_5.
- ↑ Barbanel, Julius B.; with an introduction by Alan D. Taylor (2005). The geometry of efficient fair division. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511546679. ISBN 0-521-84248-4. https://books.google.com/books?id=aBC5VkegvDkC&pg=PA2. Short summary is available at: Barbanel, J. (2010). "A Geometric Approach to Fair Division". The College Mathematics Journal 41 (4): 268. doi:10.4169/074683410x510263.
- ↑ Bronisław Knaster at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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