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Karol Borsuk's father, Marian Borsuk, was a surgeon in Warsaw.
Borsuk obtained his master's degree from the University of Warsaw in 1927 and then, from 1929 through 1934, he taught at the University, at the Chair I of Mathematics chaired by Sierpinski.
In 1945 Borsuk continued in his post in the University of Warsaw, a post he held throughout his career, being promoted to full professor II (profesor zwyczajny) in 1946.
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 Borsuk Karol, mathematician
Karol Borsuk Born: 8 May 1905 in Warsaw, Poland Died: 24 Jan 1982 in Warsaw, Poland Karol Borsuk's father, Marian Borsuk, was a surgeon in Warsaw.
Borsuk obtained his master's degree from the University of Warsaw in 1927 and then, from 1929 through 1934, he taught at the University, at the Chair I of Matrhematics chaired by Sierpinski.
On 26 April 1936 Borsuk married Zofia Paczkowska.
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 Kuperberg
Borsuk's lectures, for her brother also found them far the best of all the mathematics lectures.
Borsuk's lectures held another special significance for Krystyna, since a fellow student at these lectures was Wlodzimierz Kuperberg who Krystyna married.
Borsuk's supervision and, in 1966, she was awarded her Master's degree.
www.educ.fc.ul.pt /icm/icm2003/icm14/Kuperberg.htm   (1118 words)

  
 Borsuk–Ulam theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Borsuk–Ulam theorem was first conjectured by Stanislaw Ulam.
It was proved by Karol Borsuk in 1933.
Borsuk, "Drei Sätze über die n-dimensionale euklidische Sphäre", Fund.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Borsuk-Ulam_Theorem   (193 words)

  
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Karol Wojtyla was born on May 18, 1920 at Wadowice, Poland.
Karol Jzef Wojtya, known as John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, was born...
Karol wierczewski grew up in a poor working class family and during the First World War was evacuated...
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 borsuk, borsuk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Karol Borsuk's father, Marian Borsuk, was a surgeon in Warsaw while his mother was Zofia Maciejewska.
A Granas and J Jaworowski, Reminiscences of Karol Borsuk, Topol.
The assertion of Borsuk's conjecture was proved in dimensions 2 and 3 and in...
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 AWM Essay Contest: Maja Wichrowska
During Borsuk's seminar for undergraduates, he introduced the concept of research to students like Mrs.
This premature comprehension of what a real job might be like paved the way for her, inspiring her to become a university professor.
Kuperberg and so, once she and her husband, Wlodzimierz Kuperberg, whom she had met at one of Borsuk's discussions, had moved to the United States, she became a teacher at Auburn University.
www.awm-math.org /biographies/contest/MajaWichrowska2003.html   (720 words)

  
 Profiles of Women in Mathematics: Krystyna M. Kuperberg
Krystyna's brother, who just switched major from philosophy to mathematics, asserted that the only classes worth attending were Borsuk's lectures in topology, There she met her future husband Wlodzimierz Kuperberg.
Krystyna Kuperberg started her graduate work in topology in 1966 under the supervision of Karol Borsuk.
She obtained a master's degree at Warsaw University and left Poland in 1969 to live in Sweden.
www.awm-math.org /noetherbrochure/Kuperberg99.html   (459 words)

  
 Bennett98   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
He soon became a leader in the department, being the first mathematician to hold an Alumni Professorship, and the first topologist here to establish a connection with the Polish school.
He and Donna and Becky and Leah spent the Spring of 1972 in Warsaw, where Ralph began doing work on shape theory with Karol Borsuk.
Bennett introduced the systematic study of countable dense homogeneous spaces in a ground-breaking paper of that title which appeared in Fundamenta Mathematicae in 1972.
topo.math.auburn.edu /pub/Bennett98/essay.htm   (636 words)

  
 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Karol Sieklucki
Click here to see the students listed in chronological order.
According to our current on-line database, Karol Sieklucki has 2 students and 3 descendants.
If you have additional information or corrections regarding this mathematician, please use the update form.
genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu /html/id.phtml?id=45962   (66 words)

  
 International Conference and Workshops on Geometric Topology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Workshop on Asymptotic Dimension Theory by Alexander Dranishnikov, with the assistance of Greg Bell.
Conference Proceedings: The organizers expect that the papers submitted by the participants of the conference will be published by Fundamenta Mathematicae (a journal so much associated with Karol Borsuk) in a separate issue, but subject to the normal refereeing procedure and acceptance criteria of Fundamenta.
In order to enable publishing this issue in 2006, the papers should be submitted before December of 2005.
www.impan.gov.pl /BC/05Borsuk   (474 words)

  
 Samenvatting 30 mei 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Samenvatting: In 1933 Karol Borsuk proved that any map f:S
This result has been generalized in many ways and it has raised many related problems.
Some of these will be discussed in this talk in which we shall see that history tends to repeat itself.
dutiaw37.twi.tudelft.nl /~kp/algwiskcolloquium/2001/samenvatting-20020530.html   (45 words)

  
 Central Archive of Mizar Texts (Mizar-4)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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Andrzej Trybulec's formalization of On the Homotopy Types of Some Decomposition Spaces by Karol Borsuk, Bull.
Oryszczyszyn, M. Prazmowska, K. Prazmowski, Elements of ordered affine geometry, in 6 parts (descriptions in Polish)
www.cs.ualberta.ca /~piotr/Mizar/History/CATM   (123 words)

  
 A Guide to the David Henderson Papers, 1900, 1961-1964
Volume 8, Math 224, "Advanced Topics in Topology," Professors R. Bing and Leonard Gillman, Summer 1963 and Fall 1963
Volume 9, Math 753, "Theory of Retracts," Professor Karol Borsuk, Fall 1963
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Witness to Hope: The Life of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II
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