Kazimierz Zarankiewicz
- Birth Date:
- 02.05.1902
- Death date:
- 05.09.1959
- Length of life:
- 57
- Days since birth:
- 44562
- Years since birth:
- 122
- Days since death:
- 23617
- Years since death:
- 64
- Extra names:
- Kazimierz Zarankiewicz
- Categories:
- Professor
- Nationality:
- pole
- Cemetery:
- Warsaw, Old Powązki Cemetery
Kazimierz Zarankiewicz (2 May 1902 – 5 September 1959) was a Polish mathematician, interested primarily in topology.
Zarankiewicz was born in Częstochowa. He studied at the University of Warsaw, together with Zygmunt Janiszewski, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, Wacław Sierpiński, Kazimierz Kuratowski, and Stanisław Saks.
During World War II, Zarankiewicz took part in illegal teaching, forbidden by the German authorities, and eventually was sent to a concentration camp. He successfully survived and became a teacher at Warsaw University of Technology.
He visited universities in Tomsk, Harvard, London, Vienna. He served as president of the Warsaw section of the Polish Mathematical Society and the International Astronautical Federation.
He died in London, England.
Source: wikipedia.org
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