Miroslav Katetov ( Czech: Miroslav Katětov ; 1918–1995) - Czechoslovak mathematician , rector of Charles University (1953–1957), academician of the Academy of Sciences of Czechoslovakia (1962). The main works - on the general topology .
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Also known as a chess player : an international master and a participant in major international tournaments.
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Biography
He was born in Chembar (now - the city of Belinsky, Penza region ) in the family of a volunteer of the Czechoslovak Corps and the Russian mother, from 1923 he lived in Czechoslovakia. In 1935-1939 he studied at the Faculty of Science at Charles University in Prague, due to the outbreak of war, he had to stop his studies. During the war he worked in a psychological institute, was engaged in statistical analysis of data, while he participated in private mathematical seminars (universities were closed during the war), in 1940 published the first work on topology.
Since 1945 he has been working at the Charles University at the Faculty of Sciences ( Czech přírodovědecké ), and in 1952 became the first dean of the educated mathematics and physics department. Since 1953 - Professor, in the same year awarded the Czechoslovak State Prize for his work on the theory of dimension and was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Czechoslovakia. In the period from 1953 to 1957 he was rector of Charles University. From 1961 he worked at the Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, and since 1962 - a full member of the National Academy.
Since 1989, he took an active part in the reform of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences.
Math
Katetov published about 70 scientific articles, mainly on general topology and functional analysis , later works are devoted to the mathematical theory of entropy and applications of mathematics to psychology and medicine .
In his work of 1951, he established the identity of topological and large inductive dimensions for metric spaces ; it was this result that was awarded the Czechoslovak State Prize.
Other general topological results include: proof of the existence of a rigid Boolean algebra, an intermediate theorem for normal spaces , a generalization of the Orphans result by the characteristic properties of compactness for paracompact spaces , finding the fundamental properties of the Rudin-Keisler order on ultrafilters , embeddability in uniform space , historically the first evidence of the existence of the topology of MacKay .
The result of the 1970s is a model of dissemination of multiple sclerosis , built by means of the theory of catastrophes , also among later publications — works on functional analysis and Shannon's entropy .
Chess
The national chess master from 1938 , in 1942 and 1946, was the champion of Prague, and in the Czechoslovak Championship in 1946, he took 2nd place. Since 1951, the international master .
Member of the match Moscow - Prague 1946. The best result in the international tournament: Prague ( 1943 ) - 3rd place (after Alexander Alekhin and Paul Keres ). Compiler of chess problems and etudes .
Notes
- ↑ Mathematical Genealogy - 1997.
Literature
- Chess Dictionary / ch. ed. L. Ya. Abramov ; status G. M. Geiler . - Moscow : Physical Culture and Sport , 1964. - p. 248-249. - 120 000 copies
- Chess: Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. A. E. Karpov . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1990. - p. 155. - 624 p. - 100 000 copies - ISBN 5-85270-005-3 .
- Jaroslav Folta, Pavel Šišma. Miroslav Katětov (Czech) . Významní matematici v českých zemích . Masarykova univerzita . The appeal date was July 22, 2012. Archived August 8, 2012.
- Miroslav Husek. Miroslav Katetov (English) . Topology atlas . The appeal date was July 22, 2012. Archived August 8, 2012.
Links
- Party Miroslav Katetov in the database (English)
- Personal card Miroslav Katetov on site 365chess.com