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Jan Śniadecki (August 29, 1756, Żnin – November 9, 1830, Jašiūnai near Vilna) was a Polish mathematician, philosopher and astronomer at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Life

Śniadecki studied at the Jagiellonian University (Kraków) and in Paris. He was rector of University of Wilno, a member of the Commission of National Education, and director of astronomical observatories at Kraków and Wilno.

Śniadecki published many works, including his observations on recently discovered planetoids. His O rachunku losów (On the Calculation of Chance, 1817) was a pioneering work in probability.

He was brother to Jędrzej Śniadecki.

Works

  • "Rachunku algebraicznego teoria" (1783)
  • "Geografia, czyli opisanie matematyczne i fizyczne ziemi" (1804)
  • "O Koperniku" (1802)
  • "O rachunku losów" (1817)
  • "Trygonometria kulista analitycznie wyłożona" (1817)
  • "O pismach klasycznych i romantycznych", Dziennik Wileński (1819)
  • "Filozofia umysłu ludzkiego" (1821)

See also

References

  • Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Historia filozofii (History of Philosophy), 3 vols., Warsaw, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1978.


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