Bronisław Knaster
Polish mathematician (1893–1980)
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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]
Bronisław Knaster | |
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Bronisław Knaster | |
| Born | 22 May 1893 |
| Died | 3 November 1980 (aged 87) |
| Alma mater | University of Wrocław |
| Known for | KKM lemma Knaster–Tarski theorem Knaster–Kuratowski fan Knaster's condition Knaster continuum |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Wrocław |
| Doctoral advisor | Stefan Mazurkiewicz |
In 1945, he completed a project in collaboration with Karol Borsuk and Kazimierz Kuratowski concerning the establishment of the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[2]
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.[3] Together with his teacher Hugo Steinhaus and his colleague Stefan Banach, he also developed the last diminisher procedure for fair cake cutting.[4]: 2
Knaster received his Ph.D. degree from University of Warsaw in 1922 under the supervision of Stefan Mazurkiewicz.[5]
