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Jan Łukasiewicz

1878 - 1956

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Jan Łukasiewicz (Polish: [ˈjan wukaˈɕɛvit͡ʂ] ; 21 December 1878 – 13 February 1956) was a Polish logician and philosopher who is best known for Polish notation and Łukasiewicz logic. His work centred on philosophical logic, mathematical logic and history of logic. He thought innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle, offering one of the earliest systems of many-valued logic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Łukasiewicz has received more than 236,830 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Jan Łukasiewicz is the 186th most popular mathematician (up from 195th in 2019), the 149th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 160th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jan Łukasiewicz ranks 186 out of 1,004. Before him are Leo Perutz, Rafael Bombelli, Ibn Yunus, James Gregory, Menaechmus, and Vito Volterra. After him are Ahmes, Georg von Peuerbach, Jean Gaston Darboux, Hermann Grassmann, Abu Nasr Mansur, and Jakob Steiner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Jan Łukasiewicz ranks 35. Before him are Arthur Scherbius, Yosano Akiko, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Eileen Gray, Yakov Yurovsky, and Sadriddin Ayni. After him are Kōki Hirota, Clemens August Graf von Galen, P. D. Ouspensky, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, Elizabeth Arden, and Milan Hodža. Among people deceased in 1956, Jan Łukasiewicz ranks 39. Before him are Juan Negrín, Marie Laurencin, Yakub Kolas, William Boeing, Gottfried Benn, and Giovanni Papini. After him are Mistinguett, Alfredo Ferrari, Alben W. Barkley, Mahmud Barzanji, Gustave Charpentier, and Gianpiero Combi.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Jan Łukasiewicz ranks 149 out of 1,365. Before him are Ephraim Katzir (1916), Nikolai Ryzhkov (1929), Arkhip Kuindzhi (1842), Isaac Stern (1920), Alfred Redl (1864), and Kunigunda of Halych (1245). After him are Zinaida Serebriakova (1884), Ida Rubinstein (1883), Ivan Kozhedub (1920), Oleksandr Turchynov (1964), Jeremi Wiśniowiecki (1612), and Catherine Dolgorukov (1847).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Jan Łukasiewicz ranks 4. Before him are Stanislaw Ulam (1909), Mikhail Ostrogradsky (1801), and Vladimir Arnold (1937). After him are Richard von Mises (1883), Anatoly Fomenko (1945), Israel Gelfand (1913), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), Igor Shafarevich (1923), Georgy Voronoy (1868), and Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880).

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