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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 218,095 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Łukasiewicz is the 195th most popular mathematician (up from 200th in 2019), the 161st most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 155th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jan Łukasiewicz ranks 195 out of 823Before him are Antoine Augustin Cournot, Scipione del Ferro, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Callippus, Marcel Grossmann, and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus. After him are Richard von Mises, Laurent Schwartz, Édouard Lucas, Georg von Peuerbach, Abu Nasr Mansur, and Constantin Carathéodory.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Jan Łukasiewicz ranks 33Before him are Elizabeth Arden, Archduchess Elisabeth Amalie of Austria, Arthur Scherbius, P. D. Ouspensky, Léon Werth, and Marcel Grossmann. After him are George Whipple, Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Georg Kaiser, Clemens August Graf von Galen, Mahmud Barzanji, and Slavko Kvaternik. Among people deceased in 1956, Jan Łukasiewicz ranks 41Before him are August Kubizek, Lyonel Feininger, Yakub Kolas, Juan Negrín, Gustave Charpentier, and Giovanni Papini. After him are Gottfried Benn, Savielly Tartakower, Art Tatum, Mahmud Barzanji, Hiram Bingham III, and Erich Kleiber.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Jan Łukasiewicz ranks 161 out of 1,083Before him are Anatole Litvak (1902), Ewelina Hańska (1805), Jacob Frank (1726), Georgy Pyatakov (1890), Shvarn (1230), and Grigory Kulik (1890). After him are Richard von Mises (1883), Semion Mogilevich (1946), Louis B. Mayer (1884), Leonid Kogan (1924), Pavel Batitsky (1910), and Valentina Matviyenko (1949).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Ukraine

Among mathematicians born in Ukraine, Jan Łukasiewicz ranks 4Before 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), Viktor Bunyakovsky (1804), Tatyana Afanasyeva (1876), Igor Shafarevich (1923), Alfred J. Lotka (1880), and Georgy Voronoy (1868).