Tomasz "Tomek" Bartoszyński (born 16 May 1957) is a

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-American mathematician who works in

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Biography

Bartoszyński studied mathematics at the

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from 1976 to 1981, and worked there from 1981 to 1987. In 1984, he defended his Ph.D. thesis ''Combinatorial aspects of measure and category''; his advisor was Wojciech Guzicki. In 2004, he received his

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from the

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. From 1986 onward, he worked in the United States: he taught at the

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and

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. From 1990 to 2006, he was a professor (full professor from 1998-2006) at

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. In 1990-1991, he visited the

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as a fellow of the Lady Davis foundation, and in 1996/97 he visited the

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as a

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. Currently, he is one of the program directors at the

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(NSF), responsible for

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, and

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Family

His father, Robert Bartoszyński, is a statistician. His wife, Joanna Kania-Bartoszyńska, is the NSF program director for

topology Topology (from the Greek language, Greek words , and ) is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of a Mathematical object, geometric object that are preserved under Continuous function, continuous Deformation theory, deformat ...

and

geometric analysis Geometric analysis is a mathematical discipline where tools from differential equations, especially elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs), are used to establish new results in differential geometry and differential topology. The use of ...

Scientific work

Bartoszyński's work is mainly concerned with forcing, specifically with applications of forcing to the set theory of the real line. He has written about 50 papers in this field, as well as a monograph: * Tomek Bartoszyński and

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: ''Set theory. On the structure of the real line.'' A K Peters, Ltd., Wellesley, MA, 1995;

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