"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
Famous quotes containing the word school:
“In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the stupidity which is dead to the substance, and the vulgarity which is dead to form.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)