MATHEMATICIAN

Stanisław Leśniewski

1886 - 1939

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Stanisław Leśniewski (Polish: [lɛɕˈɲɛfskʲi]; 30 March 1886 – 13 May 1939) was a Polish mathematician, philosopher and logician. A professor of mathematics at the University of Warsaw, he was a leading representative of the Lwów–Warsaw School of Logic and is known for coining and introducing the concept of mereology as part of a comprehensive framework for logic and mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stanisław Leśniewski is the 583rd most popular mathematician (down from 493rd in 2019), the 1,226th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,169th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Stanisław Leśniewski ranks 583 out of 1,004Before him are Max Noether, Francesco Barozzi, Julius Weisbach, Johannes de Muris, Thomas Wright, and Ahmad ibn Yusuf. After him are Ulisse Dini, Jacques Pelletier du Mans, Plato Tiburtinus, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Lipót Fejér, and Johann Radon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Stanisław Leśniewski ranks 170Before him are Alexander Miasnikian, Edgar Rubin, Pierre Benoit, Aloïse Corbaz, Georges Vantongerloo, and Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke. After him are Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Peter Freuchen, H.D., Barbara Karinska, Erich Salomon, and Edward Lindberg. Among people deceased in 1939, Stanisław Leśniewski ranks 94Before him are Kálmán Darányi, Anna Coleman Ladd, Prosper Bruggeman, Levon Mirzoyan, Ford Madox Ford, and Masabumi Hosono. After him are Germán Busch, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Ivan Mosjoukine, Ursula Ledóchowska, Frank Watson Dyson, and Kolë Idromeno.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Stanisław Leśniewski ranks 1,226 out of 3,761Before him are Valentin Varennikov (1923), Yevgeny Vakhtangov (1883), Sergey Litvinov (1958), Lyudmila Zykina (1929), Pyotr Nesterov (1887), and Sergey Surovikin (1966). After him are Sadri Maksudi Arsal (1878), Valery Afanassiev (1947), Fedor Ozep (1895), Aleksandr Deyneka (1899), Zacharias Werner (1768), and Erkki Melartin (1875).

Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Stanisław Leśniewski ranks 35Before him are Kurt Hensel (1861), Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov (1906), Aleksandr Khinchin (1894), Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (1912), Solomon Lefschetz (1884), and Evgraf Fedorov (1853). After him are Boris Delaunay (1890), Efim Zelmanov (1955), Jürgen Moser (1928), Alexander Gelfond (1906), Dmitri Egorov (1869), and Aleksey Krylov (1863).