Eduard Čech, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eduard Čech

Czech mathematician

Date of Birth: 29-Jun-1893

Place of Birth: Stračov, Hradec Králové Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 15-Mar-1960

Profession: mathematician, topologist

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Eduard Cech (Czech: ['?duart 't??x]; 29 June 1893 – 15 March 1960) was a Czech mathematician born in Stracov (then Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic).
His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology.
He is especially known for the technique known as Stone–Cech compactification (in topology) and the notion of Cech cohomology. He received his doctoral degree in 1920 at Charles University, Prague with Karel Petr as advisor.
In 1921–1922 he collaborated with Guido Fubini in Turin, Italy.
He taught at Masaryk University in Brno and at Charles University.
Ivo Babuška, Vlastimil Dlab, Zdenek Frolík, Vera Trnková and Petr Vopenka have been doctoral students of Cech. He attended the First International Topological Conference held in Moscow 4-10 September 1935.
He made two presentations there: "Accessibility and homology" and "Betti groups with different coefficient groups".He died in Prague in 1960.