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Name
  
Eduard Cech

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Role
  
Mathematician


Died
  
March 15, 1960, Prague, Czech Republic

Education
  
Charles University in Prague

Urs Schreiber. Higher pre-quantized geometry.


Eduard Čech ( [ˈɛduart ˈtʃɛx]; 29 June 1893 – 15 March 1960) was a Czech mathematician born in Stračov (then Bohemia, Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic). His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology. He is especially known for the technique known as Stone–Čech compactification (in topology).

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He received his doctoral degree in 1920 at Charles University, Prague with Karel Petr as advisor. In 1921–1922 he collaborated with Guido Fubini in Turin, Italy. He taught at Masaryk University in Brno and at Charles University. Ivo Babuška, Vlastimil Dlab, Zdeněk Frolík, Věra Trnková and Petr Vopěnka have been doctoral students of Čech. He died in Prague in 1960.

Publications

  • Čech, E. (1935), "Les groupes de Betti d'un complexe infini", Fundamenta Mathematicae, 25 (1): 33–44 
  • Čech, E. (1936), "Multiplications on a complex", Ann. of Math., 37: 681–697, doi:10.2307/1968483 
  • Čech, E. (1937), "On bicompact spaces", Ann. of Math., (2)38: 823–844 
  • References

    Eduard Čech Wikipedia