References for Karol Borsuk

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  1. J Keesling, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
    http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830905029.html

Books:

  1. K Kuratowski, Half a century of Polish mathematics (Warsaw, 1973).
  2. S Mardesic and J Segal, Shape theory and geometric topology, Lecture Notes in Maths. 870 (Amsterdam-New York, 1982).
  3. S Ulam, Adventures of a mathematician (New York, 1976).

Articles:

  1. A Bonarski, The theories of Professor Borsuk (Portuguese), Bol. Soc. Paran. Mat. (2) 1 (2) (1980), 63-65.
  2. S Eilenberg, Karol Borsuk-personal reminiscences, Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal. 1 (1) (1993), 1-2.
  3. A Granas and J Jaworowski, Reminiscences of Karol Borsuk, Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal. 1 (1) (1993), 3-8.
  4. P Hilton, On some contributions of Karol Borsuk to homotopy theory, Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal. 1 (1) (1993), 9-14.
  5. Karol Borsuk - three anniversaries (Polish), Wiadom Mat. (2) 13 (1971), 43-55.
  6. M Moszynska, Karol Borsuk: 08.05.1905- 24.01.1982 (Serbo-Croatian), Glas. Mat. Ser. III 17 (37) (2) (1982), 413-423.
  7. J West, Borsuk's influence on infinite - dimensional topology, Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal. 1 (1) (1993), 35-41.
  8. J Segal, Borsuk's shape theory, Topol. Methods Nonlinear Anal. 1 (1) (1993), 43-48.
  9. K Sieklucki, The scientific activity of Professor Karol Borsuk (Polish), Wiadom Mat. (2) 20 (1978), 172-174.
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