Béla Kerékjártó

Béla Kerékjártó (1 October 1898, in Budapest – 26 June 1946, in Gyöngyös) was a Hungarian mathematician who wrote numerous articles on topology.

[2] Hermann Weyl wrote that this book completely changed his views of the subject.

[3] A claim to priority to the result was made by L. E. J. Brouwer, and the subject was revisited by Samuel Eilenberg in 1934.

[4] A modern treatment of Kerékjártó's theorem has been presented by Adrian Constantin and Boris Kolev.

Kerékjártó proved that the sphere is the only compact surface that admits a 3-transitive topological group in 1941.