"Warsaw School of Mathematics" is the name given to a group of mathematicians who worked at Warsaw, Poland, in the two decades between the World Wars, especially in the fields of logic, set theory, point-set topology and real analysis. They published in the journal Fundamenta Mathematicae, founded in 1920 — one of the world's first specialist pure-mathematics journals. It was in this journal, in 1933, that Alfred Tarski — whose illustrious career would a few years later take him to the University of California, Berkeley — published his celebrated theorem on the undefinability of the notion of truth.
Notable members of the Warsaw School of Mathematics have included:
- Wacław Sierpiński
- Kazimierz Kuratowski
- Edward Marczewski
- Bronisław Knaster
- Zygmunt Janiszewski
- Stefan Mazurkiewicz
- Stanisław Saks
- Karol Borsuk
- Roman Sikorski
- Nachman Aronszajn
- Samuel Eilenberg
Additionally, notable logicians of the Lwów-Warsaw School of Logic, working at Warsaw, have included:
- Stanisław Leśniewski
- Adolf Lindenbaum
- Alfred Tarski
- Jan Łukasiewicz
- Andrzej Mostowski
Fourier analysis has been advanced at Warsaw by:
- Aleksander Rajchman
- Antoni Zygmund
- Józef Marcinkiewicz
- Otton M. Nikodym
- Jerzy Spława-Neyman
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