Sofja Alexandrovna Yanovskaya

Sofja Alexandrowna Janowskaja , Russian Софья Александровна Яновская (born January 31, 1896 in Pruschany ; † October 24, 1966 in Moscow ) was a Russian mathematician and philosopher of mathematics.

Life

Janovskaya came from a Jewish family and attended secondary school for girls in Odessa from 1914 to 1918 . There she became a member of the Bolsheviks and worked for the party until 1924. Afterwards she taught at a party school. From 1931 to 1966 she was a member of the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at Lomonosov University and a professor. She died of diabetes.

In 1933, together with Mark Jakowlewitsch Wygodski , she founded a seminar on the history of mathematics in Moscow, which Adolf Pawlowitsch Yushkewitsch also joined (all three are considered the founders of the history of Soviet mathematics). She received her doctorate in 1935. In the 1930s she also met Ludwig Wittgenstein in Moscow, but advised him not to move to the Soviet Union.

She mainly dealt with the history of the axiomatic method, mathematical logic, and the foundations of mathematics and history of mathematics in Russia. Together with Wygodski, she took a Marxist standpoint in the history of mathematics and edited the mathematical manuscripts of Karl Marx .

She received the Order of Lenin .

Fonts

• with II Likholetov: From the history of the teaching of mathematics at Moscow University (Russian), IMI, Volume 8, 1955, pp. 127-480
• Methodological Problems in Science (Russian), Moscow 1971

literature

• Yanofskaya, Sof'ya Aleksandrovna, in: Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002, p. 570
• IH Anellis: The heritage of SA Janovskaja. History and Philosophy of Logic, Volume 8, 1987, pp. 45-56.
• BA Kushner,: Sof'ja Aleksandrovna Janovskaja: a few reminiscences, Modern Logic, Volume 6, 1996, pp. 67-72.