Ryszard Engelking
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Ryszard Engelking (16 November 1935 – 16 November 2023) was a Polish mathematician. He was working mainly on general topology[1] and dimension theory. He is the author of several influential monographs in this field. The 1989 edition of his General Topology is nowadays a standard reference for topology.[2] Engelking died on 16 November 2023, his 88th birthday.[3]
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",[4][5] for works on completely metrizable spaces, suborderable spaces and generalized ordered spaces.[6] The Engelking–Karlowicz theorem, proved together with Monica Karlowicz, is a statement about the existence of a family of functions from to with topological[7] and set-theoretical[8] applications.
Books
Engelking's books include:
Personalia
The Polish sociologist Barbara Engelking is a daughter of Ryszard Engelking.
Notes
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- ↑ K.P. Hart, J.-I. Nagata and J.E. Vaughan Editors, Encyclopedia of general Topology, Elsevier 2003, p. vii
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- ↑ Haruto Ohta, Special Spaces, Chapter b-13 in Encyclopedia of general Topology.
- ↑ R. Engelking, On the double circumference of Alexandroff, Bull. Acad. Polon. Sci. 16 (1968), 629–634.
- ↑ Encyclopedia of general Topology, pp. 204, 206, 252 and 328
- ↑ Ryszard Engelking and Monica Karlowicz, Some theorems of set theory and their topological consequences, Fundamenta Mathematicae, 57, 275–285, 1965.
- ↑ Uri Abraham and Menachem Magidor, Cardinal Arithmetic, Ch. 14 in Handbook of Set Theory (Matthew Foreman, Akihiro Kanamori, Editors) pp. 1223, 1226.