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HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS IN POLAND AFTER 1945 (HISTORIOGRAPHY OUTCOME).

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Duda R.
Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
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2008
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vol. 53
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issue 3-4
107-202
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The article includes the review of scientific output of the history of mathematics that was published after 1945, and concerns common mathematics (Polish scientific output) and Polish mathematics (Polish and foreign scientific output). The analysed scientific output occured to be so great that was divided into parts. An interest in the history of common mathematics that earlier was not observed in Poland, was discussed in section 2. Instead, a basic part of the paper, which concerns the history of Polish mathematics, was included in sections 3-10. To make the article readable, the sections were additionally divided into subsections.A detailed plan of the paper looks as follows: 1.-Introduction; 2- Common mathematics; 3. -Polish mathematics in general; 4.-Poland before partitions; 5.-Poland in the period of partitions; 6.-Poland in the interwar period; 7.-Poland during II World War (war-time losses); 8.-Poland after WW II; 9.-Biographical and bibliographic materials; 10. -Other sources; 11. -Conclusion.
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EXCHANGED PORTRAIT AND FICTITIOUS MATHEMATICAL CONSTANT OF ADRIEN-MARIE LEGENDRE AFTER YEARS (Zamieniony portret i fikcyjna stala matematyczna Adrien-Marie Legendre po latach)

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Maslanka K.
Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
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2010
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vol. 55
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issue 2
69-84
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The present essay includes a few reflections on eminent French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1833) in the light of the newest and surprising discoveries connected with his imaginary portrait and in the context of a certain result of the theory of numbers that at the beginning was said to be a significant revelation, and, at last, turned out to be unimportant.
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COLLABORATION OF ADAM ADAMANDY KOCHANSKI WITH JAN HEWELIUSZ

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Lisiak B.
Analecta. Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Nauki
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2005
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vol. 14
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issue 1-2(27-28)
85-97
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Adam Adamandy Kochanski (1631-1700) was known as a mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, philologist, and constructor of clocs and other machines. He graduated in philosophy from Molsheim (1655-1657) and began to lecture at the university in Mainz (1657-1664); later on he became a lecturer in mathematics in Bamberg (1665-1666) and in Florence (1666-1670). From 1670 he taught mathematics in the Jesuit province of Bohemia, first at Prague University (1670-1672), then in Olomouc (1672-1675), and later at the college in Wroclaw (1675-1679). As requested by King Jan III Sobieski, towards the end of 1679 he arrived in Warsaw, where he continued to lecture on mathematics and educated Sobieski's son, Jakub. From 1683 to 1690 he was employed in Gdansk as a royal librarian, where he collaborated also with the astronomer Jan Heweliusz (1611-1687). On his return to Warsaw in 1690, he took over the supervision of the royal library. He died in May 1700 in Teplice (Bohemia). Thirty four letters from the years 1677-1687 rested in physical and astronomical topics: rectilinear motion, geomagnetism and magnetic declination, the impact of forces that operate during the Earth's revolution around its axis, and attemps to calculate the distance between the Earth and the Sun. He also tried to confirm the validity of the Copernican system.
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Matematycy polscy i polskiego pochodzenia w Europie Zachodniej i obu Amerykach : ludzie i losy

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Duda R.
Analecta. Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Nauki
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2012
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vol. 21
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issue 1-2(40-41)
227-251
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Dramatic history of Poland in the years 1772-1989 and internal hardships have caused an immense brain drain in two main directions, East and West. The article is concentrated upon the latter one and lists some 50 Polish mathematicians who went to the West before 1946. Tere are also mentioned several people who were born in Poland and lived in the West but didn't feel particularly attached to their native country. In the period of communist rule (1946-1989) the number of mathematician-emigrants from Poland (all to the West) has surpassed 300 and so here only some statistical data are provided and only a few names are explicitly mentioned.
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SCHOLARLY TRIPS ABROAD BY POLISH MATHEMATICIANS IN THE INTER-WAR PERIOD (1918-1939) (Zagraniczne wyjazdy naukowe polskich matematyków w dwudziestoleciu miedzywojennym)

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Przenioslo M.
Analecta. Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Nauki
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2009
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vol. 18
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issue 1-2(35-36)
311-330
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The aim of the study is to analyse the scholarly trips abroad made by Polish mathematicians, with particular focus on where they went, how their trips were financed, what contacts they made and what the effects of such contacts were. The study is based on the analysis of archival materials, published research and memoirs. The practice of going abroad to establish scholarly contacts was quite widespread among Polish mathematicians of the interwar period (1918-1939). They travelled all over Europe, but made trans-Atlantic trips as well, with most of the scholarly trips directed to those academic centres which excelled in mathematical topics that the scholar was engaged in. Professors made trips abroad in order to acquaint themselves with the latest research or on invitations to lecture on their own achievements. Junior scholars went abroad for scholarships of several months duration, in order to follow lectures given by, and to work with, the top mathematicians of the time. Both senior and junior mathematicians attended international mathematical conferences and congresses. During their trips abroad mathematicians had a chance to learn about the centres they visited and meet the scholars who worked there. They could also present their own work to their foreign colleagues. The contacts they established bore fruit not only in individual achievements, but also benefitted Polish mathematics as a whole. More and more foreign scholars started to visit Poland, including both junior researchers and renowned professors, who had a chance to see Polish universities and collaborate with Polish mathematicians, giving lectures and taking part in conferences.
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Trudne początki teorii gier: Zermelo i Steinhaus. Analiza porównawcza pierwszych badań z zakresu rozwiązywania problemów matematycznych o postaci gier

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Adamus M.
Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
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2012
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vol. 40
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issue 4
99 - 108
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This article presents the first problems that were analyzed in a manner that would a few years later be embraced by the expression game theory. Both texts are earlier than the book of Oskar Morgenstern and John von Neumann, but in my opinion both should be considered as fundamental and inspiring sources of the framework of the game analysis. The article of the Polish mathematician, Hugo Steinhaus, was almost unknown until the late sixties, due to the language it had been written in, and it still remains generally unknown even in Poland. I make an effort to show similarities of intellectual climate in Lwów as well as in other scientific centres, as well as to draw attention to Polish successes in an area that at the time was only an idea, not a ready and finished concept.
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An Apology of Pythagorean Mathematics

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Krol Z.
Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
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2007
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vol. 16
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issue 1(61)
5-20
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The paper emphasizes the role of ancient mathematics in the philosophical considerations in Pythagorean school and contains a reconstruction of some basic mathematical ideas giving reason for the explanation of many early-Pythagorean fragments. Some contributions to the discovery of incommensurability within Pythagorean school are presented. Their importance for mathematics cannot be overestimated. Then the course of mathematically oriented inquiries is set against some purely philological studies.
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POLISH TEXTBOOKS OF THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS, ASTRONOMY AND MATHEMATICS

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Sredniawa B., Pawlikowska-Brozek Z.
Analecta. Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Nauki
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2005
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vol. 14
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issue 1-2(27-28)
99-125
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The aim of the paper is to signal the need for textbooks of history of physics, astronomy and mathematics to gain a rightful place in Polish literature. The fundamental work devoted to the history of the exact sciences in Poland is 'Bibliografia pismiennictwa polskiego z dzialu matematyki i fizyki oraz ich zastosowan' (A bibliography of Polish writings in the field of mathematics and physics and their applications) by Teofil Zebrawski. The work was published in 1873 and covers 342 manuscripts and printed publications by Polish authors since the Middle Ages until the 1830s. The current paper reviews textbooks of the history of physics, astronomy and mathematics from the middle of the 18th century until the end of the 20th century. The discussion in the paper focuses on the subject matter of the textbooks, and the scientific achievements of their authors: physicists, astronomers, mathematicians and historians of science. The bibliography of the textbooks discussed covers 100 items.
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