nLab Witold Hurewicz

• Wikipedia entry

• Karol Borsuk: Witold Hurewicz – Life and Work, in: Handbook of the History of General Topology. History of Topology, vol 1., Springer (1997) [doi:10.1007/978-94-017-0468-7_6]

Selected writings

Introducing the notion of higher homotopy groups:

• Witold Hurewicz: Beiträge zur Topologie der Deformationen (I. Höherdimensionale Homotopiegruppen), Proc. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam 38 (1935) 112–119 [pdf, pdf]

and the Hurewicz theorem relating these to homology groups:

• Witold Hurewicz: Beiträge zur Topologie der Deformationen (II. Homotopie- und Homologigruppen), Proc. Akad. Wet. Amsterdam 38 (1935) 521–528 [pdf, pdf]

Introducing compactly generated topological spaces:

• unrecorded lecture introducing compactly generated topological spaces, Princeton 1948-49 (communicated by David Gale)

Origin of the notion of Hurewicz fibrations:

• Witold Hurewicz, On the concept of fiber space, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 41 (1955) 956–961; (doi:10.1073%2Fpnas.41.11.956, jstor:89187, pdf. MR0073987)

Related entries

• Hurewicz theorem

• Hurewicz cofibration

• higher homotopy groups

• long exact sequence of homotopy groups

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