Sierpinski
Proper noun
Meaning
Sierpinski
A surname from Polish.
Examples
6 steps of the Sierpinski carpet.
However, by the results of Whyburn mentioned above, we can see that the Wallis sieve is homeomorphic to the Sierpinski carpet.
However, in 1958 Gordon Whyburn citation uniquely characterized the Sierpinski carpet as follows: any curve that is locally connected and has no 'local cut-points' is homeomorphic to the Sierpinski carpet.
For example, the disjoint union of a Sierpinski carpet and a circle is also a universal plane curve.
In the same paper Whyburn gave another characterization of the Sierpinski carpet.
Life of Sierpinski Sierpinski square, a fractal In 1907 Sierpiński first became interested in set theory when he came across a theorem which stated that points in the plane could be specified with a single coordinate.