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The reception of logic in Poland: 1870‒1920

Publication date: 19.09.2014

Technical Transactions, 2014, Fundamental Sciences Issue 1 NP (7) 2014, pp. 245 - 253

https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.14.075.2525

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Jan Woleński
University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, mjr. Henryka Sucharskiego 2, Rzeszów, Poland
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The reception of logic in Poland: 1870‒1920

Abstract

This paper presents the reception of mathematical logic (semantics and methodology of science are entirely omitted, but the foundations of mathematics are included) in Poland in the years 1870–1920. Roughly speaking, Polish logicians, philosophers and mathematicians mainly followed Boole’s algebraic ideas in this period. Logic as shaped by works of Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell became known in Poland not earlier than about 1905. The foundations for the subsequent rapid development of logic in Poland in the interwar period were laid in the years 1915–1920. The rise of Polish Mathematical School and its program (the Janiszewski program) played the crucial role in this context. Further details can be found in [8]. This paper uses the material published in [20‒24].

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The reception of logic in Poland: 1870‒1920

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The reception of logic in Poland: 1870‒1920

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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7676-7839

Jan Woleński
University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, mjr. Henryka Sucharskiego 2, Rzeszów, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7676-7839 Orcid
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