Biography:Andrzej Grzegorczyk

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Short description: Polish mathematician and philosopher
Andrzej Grzegorczyk
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Grzegorczyk in 2012
Born(1922-08-22)22 August 1922
Died20 March 2014(2014-03-20) (aged 91)
Resting placeCemetery in Pruszków, Poland
52°10N 20°48E
NationalityPolish
CitizenshipPoland
Alma materJagiellonian University
University of Warsaw
Known forGrzegorczyk hierarchy
Grzegorczyk logic (S4Grz)
Spouse(s)Renata Maria Grzegorczykowa (m. 1953)
ChildrenAgnieszka Grzegorczyk-Przeciszewska
Tomasz Grzegorczyk
AwardsStefan Banach Prize (1957)
Knight's Cross of Order of Polonia Restituta (1997)
dr. h.c. of Blaise Pascal University (2010)
dr. h.c. of Jagiellonian University (2013)
Officer's Cross of Order of Polonia Restituta (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsLogic
Ethics
Mathematics
philosophy
Religious study
Social issues
Education
InstitutionsUniversity of Warsaw
Polish Academy of Sciences
University of Amsterdam
ThesisOn Topological Spaces in Topologies without Points (1950)
Doctoral advisorAndrzej Mostowski
Other academic advisorsZygmunt Zawirski
Władysław Tatarkiewicz
Doctoral studentsStanisław Krajewski
Signature
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Notes
Family members include: Stanisław Jan Majewski
Erazm Majewski
Karol Borsuk
Magdalena Borsuk-Białynicka
Andrzej Białynicki-Birula
Iwo Białynicki-Birula
Marcin Przeciszewski

Andrzej Grzegorczyk ([ˈandʐɛj ɡʐɛˈɡɔrt͡ʂɨk]; 22 August 1922 – 20 March 2014) was a Poland logician, mathematician, philosopher, and ethicist noted for his work in computability, mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics.

Family

In 1953, Grzegorczyk married Renata Maria Grzegorczykowa, a Polish philologist and expert in polonist linguistics. Grzegorczyk had a daughter and a son.

Grzegorczyk died of natural causes in Warsaw on 20 March 2014 at the age of 91. His body is buried in the Cemetery of Pruszków.

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See also

  • List of Polish people

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