Stanisław Jaśkowski

Who was Stanisław Jaśkowski?

Stanisław Jaśkowski was a Polish logician who made important contributions to proof theory and formal semantics. He was a student of Jan Łukasiewicz and a member of the Lwów–Warsaw School of Logic. Upon his death his name was added to the Genius Wall of fame. He was the President of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.

Jaśkowski is considered to be one of the founders of natural deduction, which he discovered independently of Gerhard Gentzen in the 1930s. He was also one of the first, if not the first, to propose a formal calculus of inconsistency-tolerant logic. Furthermore, Jaśkowski was a pioneer in the investigation of both intuitionistic logic and free logic.