Miroslav Katětov (; March 17, 1918,
Chembar
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,
Russia
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– December 15, 1995) was a
Czech
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mathematician
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,
chess master
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, and
psychologist
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. His research interests in mathematics included
topology
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and
functional analysis
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. He was an author of the
Katětov–Tong insertion theorem. From 1953 to 1957 he was
rector of
Charles University in Prague
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.
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1918 births
1995 deaths
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20th-century chess players
20th-century psychologists
Soviet emigrants to Czechoslovakia
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