Bronisław Knaster
Polish mathematician
Died when: 97 years 165 days (1169 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Bronislaw Knaster (22 May 1893 – 3 November 1980) was a Polish mathematician; from 1939 a university professor in Lwów and from 1945 in Wroclaw.He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum.
Together with his teacher Hugo Steinhaus and his colleague Stefan Banach, he also developed the last diminisher procedure for fair cake cutting.
Knaster received his Ph.D. degree from University of Warsaw in 1925, under the supervisionof Stefan Mazurkiewicz.
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