Edward Szpilrajn-Marczewski
Edward Szpilrajn-Marczewski · Science & Medicine
Measure theory and dimension theory
1907, Warsaw, Russian Empire — 1976, Wrocław, Poland
Poland
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Szpilrajn-Marczewski was a Polish mathematician of the Warsaw and Wrocław schools who worked in measure theory, set theory, topology and dimension theory; he is remembered for the Szpilrajn extension theorem (every partial order extends to a linear order) and for results linking Hausdorff and topological dimension. Born Edward Szpilrajn into a Jewish family, he adopted the name Marczewski while in hiding during the German occupation.
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Measure theory and dimension theory
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