LESNIEWSKI, STANISLAW

born March 30, 1886, Serpukhov, Russia died May 13, 1939, Warsaw Polish logician and mathematician who was a co-founder and leading representative of the Warsaw school of logic. Additional reading Z.A. Jordan, Philosophy and Ideology: The Development of Philosophy and Marxism-Leninism in Poland Since the Second World War (1963), a comprehensive background history of the Warsaw school, includes much information about Lesniewski and his associates and a full bibliography. Tadeusz Kotarbinski, Gnosiology: The Scientific Approach to the Theory of Knowledge (1966), a Polish classic, for more than two decades provided the only elementary account of Lesniewski's work and influence and is still of value. Eugene C. Luschei, The Logical Systems of Lesniewski (1962), a book-length study of Lesniewski and his work, contains a comprehensive analytic bibliography of sources to 1962.