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Kazimierz Kuratowski
(* February 2nd 1896 in Warsaw, † June 18th 1980 in Warsaw)
Polish mathematician and logician.
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Life
Kuratowski was born a subject of Tsarist Russia. In 1913, he enrolled in an engineering course at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, in part because he did not wish to study in Russian. He had completed only one year of study when the outbreak of World War I precluded any further enrollment. In 1915, Kuratowski restarted his university education at the University of Warsaw, this time in mathematics, obtaining the Ph.D. in 1921.
He was appointed professor of mathematics in 1927 at the Lwów Polytechnic in Lwów, Poland, and from 1934 at Warsaw University. In 1945 he became a member of the Polish Academy of Learning, and in 1952 of the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 1948 until 1967 he was director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and he was also a long-time chairman of the Polish and International Mathematics Societies. His students include Andrzej Mostowski.