"'''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 mathematics journal|pure-mathematics journals It was in this journal in 1933 that Alfred Tarski — whose illustrious career a few years later took 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 Sierpinski
- 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
See also