| Stanisław Jaśkowski | |
| Birth Date: | 1906 4, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Warsaw, Congress Poland |
| Death Place: | Warsaw, Poland |
| Nationality: | Polish |
| Fields: | Logic |
| Workplaces: | Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń |
| Alma Mater: | University of Warsaw |
| Known For: | natural deduction paraconsistent logic proof theory formal semantics |
Stanisław Jaśkowski (Polish pronunciation: ; 22 April 1906, in Warsaw – 16 November 1965, in Warsaw) was a Polish logician who made important contributions to proof theory and formal semantics. He was a student of Jan Łukasiewicz and a member of the Lwów–Warsaw School of Logic. He is regarded as one of the founders of natural deduction, which he discovered independently of Gerhard Gentzen in the 1930s.[1] He is also known for his research into paraconsistent logic.[2] Upon his death, his name was added to the Genius Wall of Fame. He was the President (rector) of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
He was born in 1906 in Warsaw to father Feliks Jaśkowski and mother Kazimiera (nee Dzierzbicka). In 1924, he graduated from high school in Zakopane and enrolled at the University of Warsaw to study mathematics. He was taught mathematical logic under Jan Łukasiewicz and participated in the Polish Mathematicians' Congresses in Lviv (1927) and Vilnius (1931).
After the outbreak of World War II, he participated in the September Campaign as a volunteer. In 1942, he was briefly imprisoned by the Germans. In 1945, he continued his scientific career at the University of Toruń where he defended his habilitation and assumed the post of the head of the Faculty of Mathematical Logic.
Since 1950, he collaborated with the State Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). Between 1959–1962, he served as the Rector of the University. He was among the founders and served as the first President of the Polish Mathematical Society's branch in Toruń.
Jaśkowski is considered to be one of the founders of natural deduction, which he discovered independently of Gerhard Gentzen in the 1930s.[3] [4] Gentzen's approach initially became more popular with logicians because it could be used to prove the cut-elimination theorem. However, Jaśkowski's is closer to the way that proofs are done in practice. He was also one of the first to propose a formal calculus of inconsistency-tolerant (or paraconsistent) logic. Furthermore, Jaśkowski was a pioneer in the investigation of both intuitionistic logic and free logic.
He died in 1965 in Warsaw and was buried at the Powązki Cemetery.[5]