Andrzej Grzegorczyk belongs to the mathematical record as a figure whose results outlasted the problems that prompted them.
The record lists Andrzej Grzegorczyk as Polish mathematician and philosopher.
Andrzej Grzegorczyk was born at Warsaw in 1922. His recorded nationality is Poland. He studied at University of Warsaw and Jagiellonian University.
Twentieth-century mathematics became abstract and highly specialised, and its methods reached into physics, economics and computing.
His academic posts were held at University of Warsaw.
The recorded fields of work are mathematical logic.
Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
Recognition followed: Stefan Banach Prize (1957), Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta and Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta.
That the work was done from Poland matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Andrzej Grzegorczyk died in 2014, aged 92. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Stefan Banach Prize — 1957
- Knight of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Officer of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Held posts at University of Warsaw
- Fields: mathematical logic
