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Wacław Sierpiński

died 55 years ago

21 October 1969

Sierpiński's most important work is in the area of set theory, point set topology and number theory. In set theory he made important contributions to the axiom of choice and to the continuum hypothesis.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sierpinski/