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Arthur Prior in 1960

A photograph of young Jan Łukasiewicz (21 December 1878 – 13 February 1956), the famous founder of the Polish school of logic, who had enormous influence on Arthur Prior's own development as a logician. Łukasiewicz is the inventor of the Polish…

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…

A photograph of Prior's student Robert Bull

Audio recording and transcript of the interview with Prof. Max Cresswell, who was Arthur Prior's PhD student in Manchester, and later a colleague and a friend. The interview was conducted in March 2018.

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…

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…

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…

The most prominent members of the Warsaw School of Logic in 1934. From left: Jan Lukasiewicz, Stanislaw Lesniewski and Alfred Tarski.

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…