Ryszard Engelking (born 1935-11-16 in
Sosnowiec
Sosnowiec is an industrial city county in the Dąbrowa Basin of southern Poland, in the Silesian Voivodeship, which is also part of the Silesian Metropolis municipal association.—— Located in the eastern part of the Upper Silesian Indus ...
) is a Polish mathematician. He was working mainly on
general topology
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and
dimension theory
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. He is author of several influential monographs in this field. The 1989 edition of his ''General Topology'' is nowadays a standard reference for
topology
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.
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 ''d'' on ''X'' such that (''X'', ''d'') is a complete metric space and ''d'' in ...
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
to
with topological and
set-theoretical[
Uri Abraham and Menachem Magidor, 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,
Roman Sikorski
Roman Sikorski (July 11, 1920 – September 12, 1983) was a Polish mathematician.
Biography
Sikorski was a professor at the University of Warsaw from 1952 until 1982. Since 1962, he was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Sikorski's ...
,
Aleksander Pełczyński and others. He has published about 60 scientific works reviewed by
MathSciNet
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and
Zentralblatt
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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 ...
,
Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam,
Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne
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. For these activities he was awarded by
Literatura na Świecie (''World Literature'').
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1935 births
20th-century Polish mathematicians
Topologists
Living people
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