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Paul Samuilovich Urysohn

Paul Samuilovich Urysohn was a Russian mathematician. He was born in 1898 and died in 1924. He is famous for developing Urysohn's Metrization Theorem and Urysohn's Lemma, both of which are fundamental results in topology.

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MacTutor biography of Urysohn (http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Urysohn)

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