Jerzy Łoś

Jerzy Łoś (born March 22, 1920 in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) – June 1, 1998 in Warsaw) (Polish pronunciation: [ˈjɛʐɨ ˈwɔɕ]) was a Polish mathematician, logician, economist, and philosopher. He is especially known for his work in model theory, in particular for "Łoś's theorem", which states that any first-order formula is true in an ultraproduct if and only if it is true in "most" factors (see ultraproduct for details). In model theory he also proved many preservation theorems, but he gave significant contributions, as well, to foundations of mathematics, Abelian group theory and universal algebra. In the 60's he turned his attention to mathematical economics, focusing mainly on production processes and dynamic decision processes.

Jerzy Łoś
Jerzy Łoś c.1955
Born(1920-03-22)22 March 1920
Lwów, Poland
Died1 June 1998(1998-06-01) (aged 78)
Warsaw, Poland
NationalityPolish
Known forŁoś's theorem
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics

He was faculty at academies in Wrocław, Toruń, and Warsaw.

In 1996 Łoś suffered from a severe brain stroke. He was thenceforward ill until his death in 1998.

Selected publications
  • Łoś, Jerzy (1955) Quelques remarques, théorèmes et problèmes sur les classes définissables d'algèbres. Mathematical interpretation of formal systems, pp. 98--113. North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam.
gollark: I remember reading about it being incredibly eldritch to write code for because it has tiny amounts of memory organized in stupid ways.
gollark: Isn't it horrific and accursed?
gollark: GTech™ actually has a thing where you send your code to the future, where compilers are better.
gollark: I thought Macron was magically self-compiling.
gollark: It has a Minecraft backend, no?

See also
Academic offices
Preceded by
Patrick Suppes		 President of the DLMPST/IUHPST
1979–1983		 Succeeded by
Dana Scott


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.