Mathematician:Jan Łukasiewicz

Polish philosopher who contributed significantly to logic.

Most famous for his innovation Polish notation, a technique which allows one to write expressions without the need for parentheses.

Nationality
Polish

History

 * Born: 21 Dec 1878, Lwów, Austrian Galicia, known as Lemberg in German (now L'viv, Ukraine)
 * 1890–1902: studies with Kazimierz Twardowski in Lemberg
 * 1902: Doctorate (mathematics and philosophy), University of Lemberg with the highest distinction possible
 * 1906: Habilitation thesis completed, University of Lemberg
 * 1906: Becomes a lecturer
 * 1910: Essays on the Principle of Non-Contradiction and the Law of Excluded Middle
 * 1911: Extraordinary professor at Lemberg
 * 1915: Invited to the newly reopened University of Warsaw
 * 1916: New Kingdom of Poland declared
 * 1917: Develops three-valued logic
 * 1919: Polish Minister of Education
 * 1920: Professor at Warsaw University
 * 1920–1939: Founds with Stanisław Leśniewski the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic (see also Alfred Tarski, Stefan Banach, Hugo Steinhaus, Zygmunt Janiszewski, Stefan Mazurkiewicz)
 * 1928: Marries Regina Barwińska
 * 1944: Flees to Germany and settles in Hembsen, where he was brought for his own safety.
 * 1946: Exile in Belgium
 * 1946: Offered a chair by the Royal Irish Academy, held at University College Dublin
 * 1953: Writes autobiography
 * Died: 13 Feb 1956, Dublin, Ireland

Theorems and Definitions

 * Polish Notation
 * Also see Reverse Polish Notation
 * Three-Valued Logic

Books and Papers

 * 1903: On Induction as Inversion of Deduction
 * 1906: Analysis and Construction of the Concept of Cause
 * 1910: On Aristotle's Principle of Contradiction
 * 1913: On the Reversibility of the Relation of Ground and Consequence
 * 1920: On Three-valued Logic
 * 1921: Two-valued Logic
 * 1922: A Numerical Interpretation of the Theory of Propositions
 * 1928: Concerning the Method in Philosophy
 * 1929: Elements of Mathematical Logic
 * 1929: On Importance and Requirements of Mathematical Logic
 * 1930: Philosophical Remarks on Many-Valued Systems of Propositional Logic
 * 1930: Investigations into the Sentential Calculus (as Untersuchungen über den Aussagenkalkül, with Alfred Tarski)
 * 1931: Comments on Nicod's Axiom and the 'Generalizing Deduction'
 * 1934: On Science
 * 1934: Importance of Logical Analysis for Knowledge
 * 1934: Outlines of the History of the Propositional Logic
 * 1936: Logistic and Philosophy
 * 1937: In Defense of the Logistic
 * 1938: On Descartes's Philosophy
 * 1943: The Shortest Axiom of the Implicational Calculus of Propositions
 * 1951: On Variable Functors of Propositional Arguments
 * 1951: Aristotle's Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic
 * 1952: On the Intuitionistic Theory of Deduction
 * 1957: Aristotle's Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic (2nd Edition, enlarged)
 * 1958: Elementy logiki matematycznej (translated as Elements of Mathematical Logic by Olgierd Wojtasiewicz in 1964)