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Jan Łukasiewicz
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Polish logician, mathematician, philosopher, rector of the University of Warsaw (1878–1956)
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- Works
- 25
Top works
- Naẓarīyat al-qiyās al-Arisṭīyah min wijhat naẓar al-manṭiq al-ṣūrī al-ḥadīth
- Pamiętnik
- O zasadzie sprzeczności u Arystotelesa
- Über den Satz des Widerspruchs bei Aristoteles
- Elements of mathematical logic
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Key facts
- Born
- 21 December 1878, Lemberg , Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- 13 February 1956 (1956-02-13) (aged 77), Dublin , Ireland
- Alma mater
- Lemberg University
- Era
- 20th-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy Polish philosophy
- School
- Lwów–Warsaw school , Analytic philosophy
- Institutions
- Lemberg University, University of Warsaw , Royal Irish Academy
- Main interests
- Philosophical logic , mathematical logic , history of logic
- Notable ideas
- Polish notation , Łukasiewicz logic , Łukasiewicz–Moisil algebra , Reductive reasoning
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Republic of Ireland
- Place of birth
- Lviv
- Place of death
- Dublin
- Occupation
- computer scientist
- Educated at
- University of Warsaw
- Employer
- Lviv University
- Political party
- Camp of National Unity
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- Polish
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Kazimierz Twardowski
- Student of
- Kazimierz Twardowski
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Image
- Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg
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- date of death
- 1956-02-13
- date of birth
- 1878-12-21
- described by source
- Polish Biographical Dictionary
- Commons category
- Jan Łukasiewicz
- name in native language
- Jan Łukasiewicz
- place of burial
- Powązki Cemetery
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Jan Łukasiewicz ( Polish: [ˈjan wukaˈɕɛvit͡ʂ] ; 21 December 1878 – 13 February 1956) was a Polish logician and philosopher who is best known for Polish notation and Łukasiewicz logic. His work centred on philosophical logic, mathematical logic and history of logic. He thought innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle, offering one of the earliest systems of many-valued logic. Contemporary research on Aristotelian logic also builds on innovative works by Łukasiewicz, which applied methods from modern logic to the formalization of Aristotle's syllogistic.
The Łukasiewicz approach was reinvigorated in the early 1970s in a series of papers by John Corcoran and Timothy Smiley that inform modern translations of Prior Analytics by Robin Smith in 1989 and Gisela Striker in 2009. Łukasiewicz is regarded as one of the most important historians of logic.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jan Łukasiewicz” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.