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Łukasiewicz worked on Multi-valued Logics , including his own Three-valued Propositional Calculus . He is responsible for one of the most elegant axiomatizations of classical propositional logic; it has just three Axioms and is one of the most used axiomatizations today. He also pursued philosophy, approaching the human aspects of scientific theory-making with ideas similar to those of Karl Popper .

Łukasiewicz's , and first implemented in 1957. This design led to the English Electric multi-programmed KDF9 computer system of 1963, which had two such hardware register stacks. Polish notation is also used in the Lisp Programming Language . A similar concept underlies the Reverse Polish Notation (or postfix notation) of Hewlett Packard calculators, the Forth Programming Language , or the PostScript page description language.


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  • Aristotle & Łukasiewicz on the Principle of Contradiction, ed. by Frederick Seddon (Modern Logic, 1996) ISBN 1884905048

  • Philosophical Logic in Poland, ed. by Jan Wolenski (Kluwer, 1994) ISBN 0792322932

  • Jan Łukasiewicz: ''Elements of Mathematical Logic'', Warsaw , Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1963

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