Poretsky

Platon Sergeevich Poretsky

Born: 15 Oct 1846 in Elisavetgrad (now Kirovograd), Russia
Died: 22 Aug 1907 in Joved, Chernigov guberniya, Russia

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Poretsky worked as an astronomer and observer first at Kharkov Observatory and then at Kazan University. He became interested in logic through Vasiliev just before he retired in 1889 through ill health.

Poretsky worked on mathematical logic for the rest of his life, extending and augmenting results of Boole, Jevons and Schröder. He applied his logic calculus to the theory of probability.

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. N I Styazhkin, History of Mathematical Logic from Leibniz to Peano (Cambridge, Mass., 1969). 
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