Kazimierz Kuratowski
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.031145
On this date in 1896, mathematician Kazimierz Kuratowski was born in Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland). His studies were interrupted by WWI, but he earned his PhD in mathematics in 1921 in the newly independent Poland for his thesis, which focused on topology, under Wacław Sierpiński. Topology, set theory, and logic were the two primary areas of his work and he was associated with many of the mathematicians in the Lwów School of Mathematics such as Stefan Banach and Stanislaw Ulam, the latter of whom was one of Kuratowski’s graduate students. After WWII he was a professor at Warsaw University and director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Date in History: 2 February 1896
