Andrzej Mostowski
Andrzej Mostowski · Science & Medicine
Mathematical logic; the Mostowski collapse
1913, Lwów, Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) — 1975, Vancouver, Canada
Poland
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Andrzej Mostowski was a Polish logician, a leading figure of the Warsaw school and a student of Alfred Tarski, best known for the Mostowski collapse in set theory and for foundational work in mathematical logic. His mother came from the Kramsztyk family, a prominent Polish-Jewish family, giving him documented Jewish ancestry.
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Mathematical logic; the Mostowski collapse
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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