Ryszard Engelking
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Ryszard Engelking (born 1935-11-16 in
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) is a Polish mathematician. He was working mainly on
general topology In mathematics, general topology is the branch of topology that deals with the basic set-theoretic definitions and constructions used in topology. It is the foundation of most other branches of topology, including differential topology, geomet ...
and
dimension theory In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a mathematical space (or object) is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it. Thus, a line has a dimension of one (1D) because only one coord ...
. He is author of several influential monographs in this field. The 1989 edition of his ''General Topology'' is nowadays a standard reference for
topology In mathematics, topology (from the Greek language, Greek words , and ) is concerned with the properties of a mathematical object, geometric object that are preserved under Continuous function, continuous Deformation theory, deformations, such ...
.


Scientific work

Apart from his books, Ryszard Engelking is known, among other things, for a generalization to an arbitrary topological space of the "Alexandroff double circle", for works on
completely metrizable space In mathematics, a completely metrizable space (metrically topologically complete space) is a topological space (''X'', ''T'') for which there exists at least one metric (mathematics), metric ''d'' on ''X'' such that (''X'', ''d'') is a complete spac ...
s, suborderable spaces and generalized ordered spaces. The ''Engelking–Karlowicz theorem'', proved together with Monica Karlowicz, is a statement about the existence of a family of functions from 2^ \mu to \mu with topological and set-theoretical Uri Abraham and
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, Cardinal Arithmetic, Ch. 14 in Handbook of Set Theory (Matthew Foreman, Akihiro Kanamori, Editors) pp. 1223, 1226.
applications. In addition to research papers authored just by himself, he also published jointly with
Kazimierz Kuratowski Kazimierz Kuratowski (; 2 February 1896 – 18 June 1980) was a Polish mathematician and logician. He was one of the leading representatives of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. Biography and studies Kazimierz Kuratowski was born in Warsaw, (th ...
,
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,
Aleksander Pełczyński Aleksander "Olek" Pełczyński (2 July 1932, Tarnopol, Poland – 20 December 2012, Wrocław) was a Polish mathematician who worked in functional analysis. Career Pełczyński studied mathematics from 1950 to 1956 at the University of Warsaw an ...
and others. He has published about 60 scientific works reviewed by
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and
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.


Translation works

Apart from mathematics he is also interested in literature. He translated into Polish French authors: Flaubert's ''Madame Bovary'', and works of Baudelaire,
Gérard de Nerval Gérard de Nerval (; 22 May 1808 – 26 January 1855) was the pen name of the French writer, poet, and translator Gérard Labrunie, a major figure of French romanticism, best known for his novellas and poems, especially the collection ''Les Fil ...
,
Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer. His family called him Mathias while his friends called him Villiers; he would also use the name Auguste wh ...
,
Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne, born Nicolas-Edme Rétif or Nicolas-Edme Restif (; 23 October 1734 – 3 February 1806), also known as Rétif, was a French novelist. The term '' retifism'' for shoe fetishism was named after him (an early nov ...
. For these activities he was awarded by
Literatura na Świecie ''Literatura na Świecie'' (''World Literature'') was, during the times of the Polish People's Republic, one of the most widely read and sought after periodicals in Poland. The magazine was started in 1971. Its headquarters is in Warsaw. In the 197 ...
(''World Literature'').


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