Miroslav Katětov (1918--1995)
1997; Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Volume: 122; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.21136/mb.1997.126182
ISSN2464-7136
Autores Tópico(s)Linguistics and language evolution
ResumoShortly before the end of 1995, Czech mathematical community lost one of its most prominent members, a distinguished mathematician, a worldwide known specialist in general topology, the founder of the interdisciplinary seminar now called the Katetov seminar.Miroslav Katetov was born on March 17, 1918 in Belinskij (originally Cembar) near Penza as a son of POW Czech legionnaire and Russian mother.Since 1923 he lived with his mother in Czechoslovakia.After finishing his studies at secondary school 1927-35, to which he was admitted at the early age of nine years, he studied at the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague .Here he made friends with L. S. Rieger, later a prominent Czech logician, this friendship lasted till Rieger's death in 1963.It was after he submitted his thesis but before he passed the final examinations that the Nazis closed the Czech universities, so that he graduated only after the World War II in June 1945.The official oponent of his thesis was Prof. V. Jarnik who unofficially asked Prof. E. Cech, then in Brno, for his opinion since the regulations did not allow oponents or examiners from another university.During World War II M. Katetov worked in the Institute of Human Labour.His task was to help in mathematical-statistical part of work in standardization of psy chological tests and in the analysis of the data obtained.Among other, he intensively used the factor analysis which was then a new method in psychology.Here Katetov got acquainted with applications of mathematical methods in psychology, and he be gan to be interested in psychology proper.He returned to this field in the seventies when he founded the Seminar on mathematical methods in psychology.
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