Stanislaw Leśniewski
Stanisław Leśniewski [ sta'ɲiswaf lɛ'ɕɲɛfski ] (born March 30, 1886 in Serpuchow , † May 13, 1939 in Warsaw ) was a Polish philosopher , mathematician and logician .
Stanisław Leśniewski was born in Russia , but he came from a Polish family. His father worked as a railway engineer in the Russian Empire and moved around a lot. That is why Leśniewski attended high school in Irkutsk .
Then Leśniewski studied mathematics and philosophy . He heard lectures from Hans Cornelius on philosophy in Munich and mathematics from Wacław Sierpiński in Lemberg . The supervisor of his dissertation there was Kazimierz Twardowski , the founder of the Lemberg-Warsaw School of Logic, whose leading head Leśniewski would later become alongside Jan Łukasiewicz .
During the Polish-Soviet War (1919–1921) Leśniewski worked on behalf of the Polish General Staff as a cryptanalyst in the Biuro Szyfrów ( German "Cipher Office" ) successfully deciphering the codes used on the Soviet side .
In 1919, with the re-establishment of the Polish state, Leśniewski got a chair for philosophy of mathematics at the University of Warsaw . Philosophically, his position was that of Reism , a radical nominalism . He formulated his criticism of classical mathematics, in particular of set theory , which, in his view , was shaken by Russell's antinomy . He also rejected its subsequent axiomatization by Ernst Zermelo . As a replacement for set theory, he developed mereology .
Works
- “About functions whose fields are groups with regard to these functions”, Fundamenta Mathematicae 1929, Volume XIII, pp. 319–32.
- “Fundamentals of a New System of Foundations of Mathematics”, Fundamenta Mathematicae 1929, Volume XIV, pp. 1–81.
- “On functions whose fields are Abelian groups with respect to these functions”, Fundamenta Mathematicae 1929, Volume XIV, pp. 242-251.
Web links
- Literature by and about Stanisław Leśniewski in the catalog of the German National Library
- Peter Simons: Stanisław Leśniewski. In: Edward N. Zalta (Ed.): Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .
- Raul Corazzon: Ontology. A resource guide for philosophers: Lesniewski
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leśniewski, Stanislaw |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish philosopher, mathematician and logician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Serpukhov |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 13, 1939 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |