Person: Kuratowski, Kazimierz

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Kuratowski was a Polish mathematician who worked in the area of topology and set theory. He is best known for his theorem giving a necessary and sufficient condition for a graph to be planar.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born 2 February 1896, Warsaw, Russian Empire (now Poland). Died 18 June 1980, Warsaw, Poland.

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Origin Poland, Topology


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  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive