The beginning of Polish topology

DOI10.1007/BF03024308MaRDI QIDQ1361133zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Krzysztof Ciesielski, Zdzisław Pogoda

Publication date 23 July 1997

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03024308

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of general topology (54-03)

Review text

The authors present a short but informative account on the contributions of Polish mathematicians to the early development of topology, concentrating especially to the period 1911-1922.

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