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    Karol Borsuk (8 May 1905 – 24 January 1982) was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was topology, while he obtained significant results also in functional...
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  • Borsuk (the word for "badger" in a number of Slavic languages) may refer to: Angela Borsuk (born 1967), Israeli chess player Karol Borsuk, Polish mathematician...
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    the statement of the Borsuk–Ulam theorem appears in Lyusternik & Shnirel'man (1930). The first proof was given by Karol Borsuk (1933), where the formulation...
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    conjecture, is a question in discrete geometry. It is named after Karol Borsuk. In 1932, Karol Borsuk showed that an ordinary 3-dimensional ball in Euclidean space...
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  • promoted by the Polish mathematician Karol Borsuk in 1968. Actually, the name shape theory was coined by Borsuk. Borsuk lived and worked in Warsaw, hence...
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    Maps onto a Circle; his thesis advisors were Kazimierz Kuratowski and Karol Borsuk. He died in New York City in January 1998. Eilenberg's main body of work...
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    famous for applying the topological concept of retract, introduced by Karol Borsuk, to the study of the solutions of differential equations. Ważewski was...
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  • Bronisław Knaster Zygmunt Janiszewski Stefan Mazurkiewicz Stanisław Saks Karol Borsuk Roman Sikorski Nachman Aronszajn Samuel Eilenberg Additionally, notable...
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    zwierzątek) is a dice game invented and published by the Polish mathematician Karol Borsuk at his own expense in 1943, during the German occupation of Warsaw. The...
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  • S^{p+k}]}} which is an abelian group. Cohomotopy sets were introduced by Karol Borsuk in 1936. A systematic examination was given by Edwin Spanier in 1949...
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