Stanisław Piątkiewicz and the beginnings of mathematical logic in Poland (Q1910919)

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Stanisław Piątkiewicz and the beginnings of mathematical logic in Poland
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 859394

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    Stanisław Piątkiewicz and the beginnings of mathematical logic in Poland (English)
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    23 September 1996
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    It is generally believed that the first discussions in Poland of modern mathematical logic were (in print) Jan Łukasiewicz's book O zasadzie sprzecznosci u Arystotelesa: Studyum krytyczne (Kraków; Akademia Umiejetnosci) of 1910, and (orally) Kazimierz Twardowski's lectures at Lvov University in 1899. But well before either, in 1888, Stanisław Piątkiewicz published a major paper, ``Algebra w logice'' in Sprawozdania dyrektora c.k.IV gimnazyum we Lwowie za rok szkolny 1888 (reports of the Royal Imperial Grammar School No. IV in Lvov; cf. the German Programmschriften). This was a competent summary of Boole's work, and mentioned a wide range of authors on mathematical logic (Leibniz, Boole, Ploucquet, Hamilton, de Morgan, Jevons, Grassmann, and Schröder; but not Frege). The authors suggest, surely correctly, that his work did not succeed in awakening interest in mathematical logic because Piątkiewicz was merely a schoolteacher rather than an academic.
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    Leibniz
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    Boole
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    Ploucquet
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    Hamilton
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    de Morgan
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    Jevons
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    Grassmann
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    Schröder
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