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Kasimierz Kuratowski

Polish logician

Also known as: Kazimierz Kuratowski

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Zorn’s lemma

In Zorn’s lemma
…maximum principle (the Polish mathematician Kazimierz Kuratowski discovered it in 1922), he demonstrated how useful this particular formulation could be in applications, particularly in algebra and analysis. He also stated, but did not prove, that the maximum principle, the axiom of choice, and German mathematician Ernst Zermelo’s well-ordering principle were…
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