Ivan Kolar, Jir Rosicky, Franti sek Sik
This year the Czech mathematical community commemorates the 100th anniversary
of birthday of a world known scientist, Eduard Cec h. He was the greatest
Czechoslovak mathematician and one of the leading world specialists in the elds
of dierential geometry and topology. In the period 1923-45, Cec h worked at the
Masaryk University in Brno, where he achieved his most important scientic results.
Moreover, he paid special attention to the organization of the research work
in mathematics and to didactical problems.