Ryszard Engelking (16 November 1935 – 16 November 2023) was a Polish mathematician. He was working mainly on general topology 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.K.P. Hart, J.-I. Nagata and J.E. Vaughan Editors, Encyclopedia of general Topology, Elsevier 2003, p. vii Engelking died on 16 November 2023, his 88th birthday.
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",Haruto Ohta, Special Spaces, Chapter b-13 in Encyclopedia of general Topology.R. Engelking, On the double circumference of Alexandroff, Bull. Acad. Polon. Sci. 16 (1968), 629–634. for works on completely metrizable spaces, suborderable spaces and generalized ordered spaces.Encyclopedia of general Topology, pp. 204, 206, 252 and 328 The Engelking–Karlowicz theorem, proved together with Monica Karlowicz, is a statement about the existence of a family of functions from to with topologicalRyszard Engelking and Monica Karlowicz, Some theorems of set theory and their topological consequences, Fundamenta Mathematicae, 57, 275–285, 1965. and set-theoreticalUri Abraham and Menachem Magidor, Cardinal Arithmetic, Ch. 14 in Handbook of Set Theory (Matthew Foreman, Akihiro Kanamori, Editors) pp. 1223, 1226. applications.
Books Engelking's books include:
Personalia The Polish sociologist Barbara Engelking is a daughter of Ryszard Engelking.
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