Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn
Russian mathematician
Died when: 26 years 196 days (318 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn (Па́вел Самуи́лович Урысо́н) (February 3, 1898 – August 17, 1924) was a Soviet mathematician who was best known for his contributions in dimension theory, and for developing Urysohn's metrization theorem and Urysohn's lemma, both of which are fundamental results in topology.
His name is also commemorated in the terms Urysohn universal space, Fréchet–Urysohn space, Menger–Urysohn dimension and .He and Pavel Alexandrov formulated the modern definition of compactness in 1923.
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