Kazimierz Kuratowski

Kazimierz Kuratowski
Kuratowski in 1959
Born	(1896-02-02)2 February 1896 Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died	18 June 1980(1980-06-18) (aged 84) Warsaw, Poland
Nationality	Polish
Alma mater	University of Warsaw
Known for	Kuratowski's theorem Kuratowski closure axioms Kuratowski–Zorn lemma Kuratowski's closure-complement problem Kuratowski's intersection theorem Kuratowski-Ulam theorem Kuratowski-finite Kuratowski and Ryll-Nardzewski measurable selection theorem Knaster–Kuratowski–Mazurkiewicz lemma Tarski–Kuratowski algorithm
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Warsaw
Doctoral advisor	Stefan Mazurkiewicz Zygmunt Janiszewski
Doctoral students	Samuel Eilenberg Andrzej Mostowski Stanislaw Ulam

Kazimierz Kuratowski (Polish pronunciation: [kaˈʑimjɛʂ kuraˈtɔfskʲi]; 2 February 1896 – 18 June 1980) was a Polish mathematician and logician. He was one of the leading representatives of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. He worked as a professor at the University of Warsaw and at the Mathematical Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IM PAN). Between 1946 and 1953, he served as President of the Polish Mathematical Society.

He is primarily known for his contributions to set theory, topology, measure theory and graph theory. Some of the notable mathematical concepts bearing Kuratowski's name include Kuratowski's theorem, Kuratowski closure axioms, Kuratowski-Zorn lemma and Kuratowski's intersection theorem.