LEŚNIEWSKI, STANISŁAW


Meaning of LEŚNIEWSKI, STANISŁAW in English

or Stanisław Leshniewski

born March 30, 1886, Serpukhov, Russia

died May 13, 1939, Warsaw

Polish logician and mathematician.

As a professor at the University of Warsaw (1919–39), he became a cofounder and leading representative of the Warsaw school of logic. His distinctive contribution was the construction of three interrelated formal system s, to which he gave the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology .

Britannica English dictionary.      Английский словарь Британика.