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Alfred Tarski (1901-1983) was a renowned Polish/American
mathematician, a giant of the twentieth century, who helped
establish the foundations of geometry, set theory, model theory,
algebraic logic and universal algebra. Throughout his career, he
taught mathematics and logic at universities and sometimes in
secondary schools. Many of his writings before 1939 were in Polish
and remained inaccessible to most mathematicians and historians
until now. This self-contained book focuses on Tarski's early
contributions to geometry and mathematics education, including the
famous Banach-Tarski paradoxical decomposition of a sphere as well
as high-school mathematical topics and pedagogy. These themes are
significant since Tarski's later research on geometry and its
foundations stemmed in part from his early employment as a
high-school mathematics teacher and teacher-trainer. The book
contains careful translations and much newly uncovered social
background of these works written during Tarski's years in Poland.
Alfred Tarski: Early Work in Poland serves the mathematical,
educational, philosophical and historical communities by publishing
Tarski's early writings in a broadly accessible form, providing
background from archival work in Poland and updating Tarski's
bibliography. A list of errata can be found on the author Smith's
personal webpage.
Alfred Tarski (1901-1983) was a renowned Polish/American
mathematician, a giant of the twentieth century, who helped
establish the foundations of geometry, set theory, model theory,
algebraic logic and universal algebra. Throughout his career, he
taught mathematics and logic at universities and sometimes in
secondary schools. Many of his writings before 1939 were in Polish
and remained inaccessible to most mathematicians and historians
until now. This self-contained book focuses on Tarski's early
contributions to geometry and mathematics education, including the
famous Banach-Tarski paradoxical decomposition of a sphere as well
as high-school mathematical topics and pedagogy. These themes are
significant since Tarski's later research on geometry and its
foundations stemmed in part from his early employment as a
high-school mathematics teacher and teacher-trainer. The book
contains careful translations and much newly uncovered social
background of these works written during Tarski's years in Poland.
Alfred Tarski: Early Work in Poland serves the mathematical,
educational, philosophical and historical communities by publishing
Tarski's early writings in a broadly accessible form, providing
background from archival work in Poland and updating Tarski's
bibliography. A list of errata can be found on the author Smith's
personal webpage.
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