Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn

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Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn, Pavel Uryson (Па́вел Самуи́лович Урысо́н) (February 3, 1898, Odessa – August 17, 1924, Batz-sur-Mer) was a Russian mathematician who is best known for his contributions in the theory of dimension, for developing Urysohn's Metrization Theorem and Urysohn's Lemma, both of which are fundamental results in topology. His name is also commemorated in the term Menger-Urysohn dimension.

Urysohn studied at Moscow University from 1915 to 1921. His advisor was Nikolai Luzin. He then became an assistant professor there. He drowned in 1924 while swimming off the coast of Brittany, France.

[edit] See also

• Fréchet-Urysohn space

[edit] References

• MacTutor biography of Urysohn
• Pavel Samuilovich Urysohn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project