Kuratowski was born a subject of TsaristRussia. In 1913, he enrolled in an engineering course at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, in part because he did not wish to study in Russian. He had completed only one year of study when the outbreak of World War I precluded any further enrollment. In 1915, Kuratowski restarted his university education at the University of Warsaw, this time in mathematics, obtaining the Ph.D. in 1921.
Kazimierz Kuratowski was one of a celebrated group of Polish mathematicians who would meet at Lwów's Kawiarnia Szkocka (Scottish Café).
Research
Kuratowski's research was mainly focused on abstract topological and metric structures. With Alfred Tarski and Wac?aw Sierpi?ski he provided most of the theory concerning Polish spaces[1] (that are indeed named after these mathematicians and their legacy). His contributions to mathematics also include:
Kazimierz Kuratowski, A Half Century of Polish Mathematics: Remembrances and Reflections, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1980, ISBN 0-08-023046-6.
Karol Borsuk, "On the Achievements of Prof. Dr. Kazimierz Kuratowski in Topology" (in Polish), Wiadomo?ci matematyczne, vol. 2, no. 3, 1960, pp. 231-237.