Biography of andrzej mostowski

Polish mathematician

Andrzej Mostowski (1 November 1913 – 22 August 1975) was a Polish mathematician. He worked primarily in logic and foundations of mathematics and is perhaps best remembered for the Mostowski collapse lemma.

He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a representative of the Warsaw School of Mathematics.

Biography

Born in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary, Mostowski entered University of Warsaw in 1931.

He was influenced by Kuratowski, Lindenbaum, and Tarski.

Biography of andrzej mostowski

His Ph.D. came in 1939, officially directed by Kuratowski but in practice directed by Tarski who was a young lecturer at that time.

He became an accountant after the German invasion of Poland but continued working in the Underground Warsaw University.

After the Warsaw uprising of 1944, the Nazis tried to put him in a concentration camp. With the help of some Polish nurses, he escaped to a hospital, choosing to take bread with him rather than his notebook containing his research