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Edward Marczewski (15 November 1907 – 17 October 1976) was a Polish mathematician. His surname until 1940 was Szpilrajn.Marczewski was a member of the Warsaw School of Mathematics. His life and work after the Second World War were connected with Wrocław, where he was among the creators of the Polish scientific centre.Marczewski's main fields of interest were measure theory, descriptive set theory, general topology, probability theory and universal algebra. He also published papers on real and complex analysis, applied mathematics and mathematical logic.Marczewski proved that the topological dimension, for arbitrary metrisable separable space X, coincides with the Hausdorff dimension under one of the metrics in X which induce the given topology of X (while otherwise the Hausdorff dimension is always greater or equal to the topological dimension). This is a fundamental theorem of fractal theory. (Certain contributions to this development were also made by Samuel Eilenberg, see: Witold Hurewicz and Henry Wallman, Dimension Theory, 1941, Chapter VII.)

Personal facts

Birth date	November 15, 1907
Birth place	Warsaw , Russian Empire , Congress Poland
Nationality	Pol
Date of death	October 17, 1976
Place of death	Poland , Wrocław
Education	University of Warsaw
Known for	Szpilrajn extension theorem Marczewski function

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