December 18, 2016 Sunday
Bedtime Story
The Troika Who Influenced Tarski:
With the victory and independence of Poland also came the freedom
of the University of Warsaw to recruit its own professors at the top positions.
Tarski joined the University of Warsaw the very year World War I
came to an end and Poland got its independence.
He was just 17 and his chief interest was biology.
At about the same time when Tarski joined the university, the
department of mathematics, logics and philosophy got 3 great Polish minds that
made the University of Warsaw a leader in the arena of formal logic in the
interbellum.
Interbellum also known as the interwar period is the time between
the end of the World War I, 1918 and the beginning of the World War II,
1939.
These three Polish minds were:
Jan Łukasiewicz: His work
involved mathematical logic, analytical philosophy and history of logic.
Stanisław Leśniewski: He too was a mathematician, logician and
philosopher who constructed a three nested formal system.
Wacław Sierpiński: He was a mathematician with particular interest
in set theory (including axiom of choice and continuum hypothesis) and was
prolific output of research papers and books.
All these three men, particularly Stanisław Leśniewski saw clearly
the mathematician in Alfred Tarski and convinced him to dump biology in favor
of mathematics.
Which Alfred Tarski did.
For most, almost everybody except perhaps John von Neumann,
mathematics had turned out to be a very poor choice of career option.
And so it was too for Alfred Tarski.
The only way one can earn a living out of mathematics is to teach
it to reluctant children which he did at the Polish Pedagogical Institute and
at a secondary teacher in Warsaw.
In this period between 1923 and 1939, Tarski besides teaching
mathematics and logics wrote several books and published several papers.
Moreover, he also managed to find his wife in another teacher at
the school.
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Good night and my fellow cousin ape.
Another great educator and a teacher that I am aware of is
Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
Do visit him here:
All his books can be downloaded for free through this link:
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