Stanisław Jaśkowski (Polish pronunciation: [staˈɲsvaf jaɕˈkɔfskʲi]; 22 April 1906, in Warsaw – 16 November 1965, in Warsaw) was a Polish logician who made important contributions to proof theory and formal semantics. He was a student of Jan Łukasiewicz and a member of the Lwów–Warsaw School of Logic. He is regarded as one of the founders of natural deduction, which he discovered independently of Gerhard Gentzen in the 1930s.[1] He is also known for his research into paraconsistent logic.[2] Upon his death, his name was added to the Genius Wall of Fame. He was the President (rector) of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Stanisław Jaśkowski | |
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| Born | 22 April 1906 |
| Died | 16 November 1965 (aged 59) |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
| Known for | natural deduction paraconsistent logic proof theory formal semantics |
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| Fields | Logic |
| Institutions | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń |
Life and career
editHe was born in 1906 in Warsaw to father Feliks Jaśkowski and mother Kazimiera (nee Dzierzbicka). In 1924, he graduated from high school in Zakopane and enrolled at the University of Warsaw to study mathematics. He was taught mathematical logic under Jan Łukasiewicz and participated in the Polish Mathematicians' Congresses in Lviv (1927) and Vilnius (1931).
After the outbreak of World War II, he participated in the September Campaign as a volunteer. In 1942, he was briefly imprisoned by the Germans. In 1945, he continued his scientific career at the University of Toruń where he defended his habilitation and assumed the post of the head of the Faculty of Mathematical Logic.
Since 1950, he collaborated with the State Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). Between 1959–1962, he served as the Rector of the University. He was among the founders and served as the first President of the Polish Mathematical Society's branch in Toruń.
Jaśkowski is considered to be one of the founders of natural deduction, which he discovered independently of Gerhard Gentzen in the 1930s.[3][4] Gentzen's approach initially became more popular with logicians because it could be used to prove the cut-elimination theorem. However, Jaśkowski's is closer to the way that proofs are done in practice. He was also one of the first to propose a formal calculus of inconsistency-tolerant (or paraconsistent) logic. Furthermore, Jaśkowski was a pioneer in the investigation of both intuitionistic logic and free logic.
He died in 1965 in Warsaw and was buried at the Powązki Cemetery.[5]
Works
edit- On the Rules of Suppositions in Formal Logic Studia Logica 1, 1934 pp. 5–32 (reprinted in: Storrs McCall (ed.), Polish Logic 1920-1939, Oxford University Press, 1967 pp. 232–258
- Investigations into the System of Intuitionist Logic 1936 (translated in: Storrs McCall (ed.), Polish Logic 1920-1939, Oxford University Press, 1967 pp. 259–263
- A propositional Calculus for Inconsistent Deductive Systems 1948 (reprinted in: Studia Logica, 24 1969, pp 143–157 and in: Logic and Logical Philosophy 7, 1999 pp. 35–56)
- On the Discussive Conjunction in the Propositional Calculus for Inconsistent Deductive Systems 1949 (reprinted in: Logic and Logical Philosophy 7, 1999 pp. 57–59)
- On Formulas in which no Individual Variable occurs more than Twice, Journal of Symbolic Logic, 31, 1966, pp. 1–6)
- in Polish
- O symetrii w zdobnictwie i przyrodzie - matematyczna teoria ornamentów (English title: On Symmetry in Art and Nature), PWS, Warszawa, 1952 (book 168 pages)
- Matematyczna teoria ornamentów (English title: Mathematical Theory of Ornaments), PWN, Warszawa, 1957 (book 100 pages)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Natural Deduction Systems in Logic". plato.stanford.edu. 29 October 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- ^ Ricardo Arturo Nicolás-Francisco. "On the Polish "Via Modalization" Approach to Paraconsistency" (PDF). edukacja-filozoficzna.uw.edu.pl. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- ^ Jaśkowski, Stanisław (1934). "On the rules of suppositions in formal logic". Polish Logic 1920–39.
- ^ Indrzejczak, Andrzej (2018). "Stanisław Jaśkowski and Natural Deduction Systems". The Lvov-Warsaw School. Past and Present. Studies in Universal Logic. pp. 465–483. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65430-0_33. ISBN 978-3-319-65429-4. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ "Warszawskie Zabytkowe Pomniki Nagrobne" (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2019-04-22. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
Sources
edit- Jerzy Perzanowski (1999). "Fifty Years of Parainconsistent Logics" (PDF). Logic and Logical Philosophy. 7: 21–24. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-04-04.
- Woleński, Jan (2003). "Lvov-Warsaw School". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2003 Edition). Retrieved 2006-03-11.
- Jerzy Kotas, August Pieczkowski. Scientific works of Stanisław Jaśkowski, Studia Logica 21, 1967, 7-15