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The Press: "Staff changes"
Newspaper notice of A.N. Prior's appointment as a temporary lecturer in philosophy at Canterbury University College. The Press, 18 December 1945, p. 2.
Stanislaw Lesniewski [photograph]
Stanisław Leśniewski (1886–1939) was a Polish logician who is regarded, together with Jan Łukasiewicz, as the founder of the Polish school of logic. He was the originator of an unorthodox system of the foundations of mathematics, based on three…
Alfred Tarski [photograph]
Alfred Tarski (1901–1983), probably the most famous logician that came out of the Warsaw School of Logic. He was a student of Jan Łukasiewicz at the University of Warsaw. He emigrated to the United States in 1939, at the beginning of the German…
Warsaw School of Logic [photograph]
The most prominent members of the Warsaw School of Logic in 1934. From left: Jan Lukasiewicz, Stanislaw Lesniewski and Alfred Tarski.
Jan Lukasiewicz [photograph 3]
A photograph of Jan Łukasiewicz (1878 – 1956), the famous founder of the Polish school of logic, who had enormous influence on Arthur Prior's own development as a logician. Łukasiewicz was a professor of philosophy at the University of Warsaw until…
Jan Lukasiewicz [photograph 2]
A photograph of Jan Łukasiewicz (1878 – 1956), the famous founder of the Polish school of logic, who had enormous influence on Arthur Prior's own development as a logician. Łukasiewicz was a professor of philosophy at the University of Warsaw until…
I.M. Bochenski [photograph]
Father Innocenty (Józef) M. Bocheński (1902 – 1995), Polish catholic philosopher and logician, whose books on logic had profound influence on Arthur Prior. After the WWII, Bocheński taught history of the 20th century philosophy at the University of…
Carew A. Meredith [photograph]
A photograph of Arthur's colleague Carew Arthur Meredith (28 July 1904 – 31 March 1976), taken in Dublin in 1947. Meredith was a mathematician at the Trinity College Dublin and developed strong interest in formal logic under the influence of Jan…
Arthur Prior's home in Masterton [photograph]
46 Perry St. Masterton, New Zealand: the family home and the GP office of Dr. Norman Prior, Arthur's father. Norman himself was born in that house and continued to live there when in 1912 he married his first wife and Arthur's mother Bessie, who died…
Arthur Prior in Auckland in 1934 [photograph]
Young Arthur Prior on a family picnic in Auckland in January 1934, age 19. From left: Margaret Sinclaire (Arthur Prior's cousin, daughter of his father Norman's oldest sister), Ian Prior (Arthur's half brother), Arthur Prior, Mrs. Gregor (relative of…