Jan Śniadecki

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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 century.

Contents 1 Life 2 Works 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Life

Śniadecki studied at the Jagiellonian University (Kraków) and in Paris. He was rector of Stefan Batory University in 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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] See also

• History of philosophy in Poland

[edit] References

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

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