Jan Lukasiewicz [photograph 2]

AP230a Lukasiewicz-1947.jpg

Dublin Core

Title

Jan Lukasiewicz [photograph 2]

Description

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 end of WWII, when he emigrated to Ireland and taught logic at the University College Dublin until his death. He is the inventor of the Polish notation – the logical symbolism that become the signature of Prior's own logical writings. This photograph is taken in 1947.

Source

The Private Archive of Jacek Jadacki, Warsaw

Date

1947

Contributor

Jacek Jadacki

Rights

Copyright Jacek Jadacki. Used with permission. All rights reserved

Relation

AP230

Format

JPEG

Identifier

AP230a

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

b/w photograph

Citation

“Jan Lukasiewicz [photograph 2],” Popper and Prior in New Zealand, accessed October 16, 2024, http://popper-prior.nz/items/show/279.