
S. Lesniewski's Lecture Notes in Logic
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published on 31. October 1988
Book
Hardback
XII, 184 pages
978-90-247-3416-0 (ISBN)
Description
Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939) was one of the leading Polish logicians and founders of the Warsaw School of Logic whose membership included, beside himself, Jan Lukasiewicz, Tadeusz Kotarbinski, Alfred Tarski, and many others. In his lifetime LeSniewski published only a few hundred pages. He produced many important results in many areas of mathematics; these stood in various relations to each other, and to materials produced by others, and, in time, created more and more editorial problems. Very many were left unpublished at the time of his death. Then in 1944 in the fire of Warsaw the whole of this material was burned and lost -a considerable loss since a great deal of what is important could have been reconstructed from these notes. The present publication aims at presenting unique Lesniewski's materials from alternative sources comprising lecture notes taken during some of Lesniewski's lectures and seminars delivered at the University of Warsaw be tween the two world wars. The editors are aware of the limitations of student notes which cannot compensate for the loss of the original materials. However, they are unique in reflecting Lesniewski's ideas as he himself presented them. Already at the time of his death it was realized that these notes would provide a unique access to Lesniewski's own thought as well as a valuable record of some of the activities of the Warsaw School of Logic.
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Series
Edition
1988
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Publishing group
Springer
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
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XII, 184 p.
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
471 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-247-3416-0 (9789024734160)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-009-2741-4
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Content
One: Foundations of Mathematics.- 1. From the foundations of Protothetic.- 2. Definitions and theses of Le?niewski's Ontology.- 3. Class theory.- Two: Peano Arithmetic and Whitehead's Theory of Events.- 4. Primitive terms of arithmetic.- 5. Inductive definitions.- 6. Whitehead's theory of events.- List of seminars and courses delivered by Le?niewski at Warsaw University between 1919 and 1939.