Ryszard Engelking

Engelking in 2014

Ryszard Engelking (16 November 1935 – 16 November 2023) was a Polish mathematician. He was working mainly on general topology[1] and dimension theory. He is the author of several influential monographs in this field. The 1989 edition of his General Topology is nowadays a standard reference for topology.[2] Engelking died on 16 November 2023, his 88th birthday.[3]

Scientific work

Apart from his books, Ryszard Engelking is known, among other things, for a generalization to an arbitrary topological space of the "Alexandroff double circle",[4][5] for works on completely metrizable spaces, suborderable spaces and generalized ordered spaces.[6] The Engelking–Karlowicz theorem, proved together with Monica Karlowicz, is a statement about the existence of a family of functions from to with topological[7] and set-theoretical[8] applications.

Books

Engelking's books include:

  • R. Engelking (1968). Outline of General Topology. translated from Polish. North-Holland, Amsterdam.
  • R. Engelking (1977). General Topology. PWN, Warsaw.
  • R. Engelking (1978). Dimension Theory. North-Holland, Amsterdam.
  • R. Engelking (1989). General Topology. Revised and completed edition. Heldermann Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 3-88538-006-4.
  • R. Engelking (1995). Theory of Dimensions: Finite and Infinite. Heldermann Verlag, Berlin. ISBN 3-88538-010-2.

Notes

  1. ^ Instytut Historii Nauki, Oświaty i Techniki (Polska Akademia Nauki (1980). Kwartalnik historii nauki i techniki (in Polish). Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. p. 704. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  2. ^ K.P. Hart, J.-I. Nagata and J.E. Vaughan Editors, Encyclopedia of general Topology, Elsevier 2003, p. vii
  3. ^ "Ryszard Engelking, Warszawa, 20.11.2023 - nekrolog". nekrologi.wyborcza.pl. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  4. ^ Haruto Ohta, Special Spaces, Chapter b-13 in Encyclopedia of general Topology.
  5. ^ R. Engelking, On the double circumference of Alexandroff, Bull. Acad. Polon. Sci. 16 (1968), 629–634.
  6. ^ Encyclopedia of general Topology, pp. 204, 206, 252 and 328
  7. ^ Ryszard Engelking and Monica Karlowicz, Some theorems of set theory and their topological consequences, Fundamenta Mathematicae, 57, 275–285, 1965.
  8. ^ Uri Abraham and Menachem Magidor, Cardinal Arithmetic, Ch. 14 in Handbook of Set Theory (Matthew Foreman, Akihiro Kanamori, Editors) pp. 1223, 1226.


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