Bronisław Knaster, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish mathematician
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Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Bronisław Knaster
- Bronislaw Knaster (22 May 1893 – 3 November 1980) was a Polish mathematician; from 1939 a university professor in Lwów and from 1945 in Wroclaw.He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum.
- Together with his teacher Hugo Steinhaus and his colleague Stefan Banach, he also developed the last diminisher procedure for fair cake cutting.Knaster received his Ph.D.
- degree from University of Warsaw in 1925, under the supervision of Stefan Mazurkiewicz.
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