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    Wacław Franciszek Sierpiński (Polish: [ˈvat͡swaf fraɲˈt͡ɕiʂɛk ɕɛrˈpij̃skʲi] ; 14 March 1882 – 21 October 1969) was a Polish mathematician. He was known...
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    The Sierpiński triangle (sometimes spelled Sierpinski), also called the Sierpiński gasket or Sierpiński sieve, is a fractal attractive fixed set with...
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    The Sierpiński carpet is a plane fractal first described by Wacław Sierpiński in 1916. The carpet is a generalization of the Cantor set to two dimensions;...
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  • 1960, Wacław Sierpiński proved that there are infinitely many odd integers k which have this property. In other words, when k is a Sierpiński number...
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    Sierpiński curves are a recursively defined sequence of continuous closed plane fractal curves discovered by Wacław Sierpiński, which in the limit n →...
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  • which is neither trivial nor discrete. It is named after Wacław Sierpiński. The Sierpiński space has important relations to the theory of computation...
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    log 9/log 3=2 Apollonian gasket Cantor cube Koch snowflake Sierpiński tetrahedron Sierpiński triangle List of fractals by Hausdorff dimension Beck, Christian;...
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  • Frédéric Chopin, Hilary Koprowski, Bohdan Paczyński, Bolesław Prus, Wacław Sierpiński, Alfred Tarski, Ludwik Zamenhof and Florian Znaniecki. In 1795, the...
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  • writer Wacław Sierpiński (1882–1969), Polish mathematician Wacław Szybalski (1921–2020), Polish-American medical researcher, geneticist Wacław Szymanowski...
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    Chaos game (redirect from Sierpiński game)
    result in the Sierpinski triangle, while creating the proper arrangement with four points and a factor 1/2 will create a display of a "Sierpinski Tetrahedron"...
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  • also remains in use. Notable work on transfinite numbers was done by Wacław Sierpiński: Leçons sur les nombres transfinis (1928 book) much expanded into...
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  • Numbers is a book on transfinite numbers, by Polish mathematician Wacław Sierpiński. It was published in 1958 by Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, as volume...
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    discussing van Kampen's theorem, covering spaces, and orbit spaces.) Wacław Sierpiński, General Topology, Dover Publications, 2000, ISBN 0-486-41148-6 Pickover...
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    as the solid horizontal line. Wacław Sierpiński [1] http://www.plouffe.fr/simon/constants/sierpinski.txt - Sierpiński's constant up to 2000th decimal...
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    1996 Nobel Prize in Literature Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer Wacław Sierpiński (IPA: [ˈvat͡swaf ɕɛrˈpʲij̃skʲi] ), Polish mathematician Some examples...
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    mathematical analysis, topology, and probability. He was a student of Wacław Sierpiński and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU). His students...
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  • intuition of Stuart Davidson but the mathematics behind it goes back to Wacław Sierpiński. Let A ⊆ P ( [ 0 , 1 ] ) [ 0 , 1 ] {\displaystyle A\subseteq {\mathcal...
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  • Kuratowski, and the idea was further studied by mathematicians such as Wacław Sierpiński and António Monteiro, among others. A similar set of axioms can be...
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    (took his life in the Drohobycz Ghetto in 1943 to avoid capture) Wacław Sierpiński (house burned by Nazis in 1944, worked in the Underground Warsaw University)...
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    applied as textures for many different uses. Among his students was Wacław Sierpiński (Ph.D. at Jagiellonian University in 1906). Although he was not formally...
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  • Notable members of the Warsaw School of Mathematics have included: Wacław Sierpiński Kazimierz Kuratowski Edward Marczewski Bronisław Knaster Zygmunt Janiszewski...
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    maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Wacław Sierpiński, as quoted in Rotkiewicz, A. (1972), "W. Sierpiński's works on the theory of numbers", Rendiconti...
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    Russian Section cryptologist Piotr Smoleński Others Jan Kowalewski Stanisław Leśniewski Stefan Mazurkiewicz Franciszek Pokorny Wacław Sierpiński v t e...
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    Lyapunov Benoit Mandelbrot Hamid Naderi Yeganeh Lewis Fry Richardson Wacław Sierpiński Other "How Long Is the Coast of Britain?" Coastline paradox Fractal...
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  • Erwin Kreyszig, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, 8th ed, page 747 Wacław Sierpiński (1916). "Sur une série potentielle qui, étant convergente en tout...
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  • Pythagorean triples. It was originally written in the Polish language by Wacław Sierpiński (titled Trójkąty pitagorejskie), and published in Warsaw in 1954....
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    School of Mathematics (with Alfred Tarski, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Wacław Sierpiński and Antoni Zygmund). Numerous mathematicians, scientists, chemists...
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    snowflake.: 25  Another milestone came a decade later in 1915, when Wacław Sierpiński constructed his famous triangle then, one year later, his carpet....
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    Lyapunov Benoit Mandelbrot Hamid Naderi Yeganeh Lewis Fry Richardson Wacław Sierpiński Other "How Long Is the Coast of Britain?" Coastline paradox Fractal...
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    exactly k solutions; this result had previously been conjectured by Wacław Sierpiński, and it had been obtained as a consequence of Schinzel's hypothesis...
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