Ryszard Engelking
Encyclopedia
Ryszard Engelking is a Polish
mathematician. He was working mainly on general topology
and dimension theory
. He is author of several influential monographs in this field. In addition to research papers authored just by himself, he also published jointly with Kazimierz Kuratowski
, Roman Sikorski
, Aleksander Pełczyński and others.
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
mathematician. He was working mainly on general topology
General topology
In mathematics, general topology or point-set topology is the branch of topology which studies properties of topological spaces and structures defined on them...
and dimension theory
Dimension theory
In mathematics, dimension theory is a branch of general topology dealing with dimensional invariants of topological spaces.-See also:*Lebesgue covering dimension*Inductive dimensions *Dimension...
. He is author of several influential monographs in this field. In addition to research papers authored just by himself, he also published jointly with Kazimierz Kuratowski
Kazimierz Kuratowski
Kazimierz Kuratowski was a Polish mathematician and logician. He was one of the leading representatives of the Warsaw School of Mathematics.-Biography and studies:...
, Roman Sikorski
Roman Sikorski
Roman Sikorski was a Polish mathematician.Sikorski was from 1952 until 1982 professor at the Warsaw University...
, Aleksander Pełczyński and others.