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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo (22.5 cm), VIII, 204 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed at extremities, ownership entry at the head of the title page). Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896-1980) was a Polish mathematician and logician, one of the leading representatives of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. He is the author of numerous works in set theory and topology, including the fundamental treatise on set-theoric topology (1934). This account is focused mainly on Polish mathematics in the period 1920-1970 and is based on the reminiscences of an eye-witness and participant of that great adventure which the birth of the Polish school of mathematics proved to be. Seller Inventory # 008177