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'{{short description|Polish mathematician}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Helena Rasiowa your butt | image = Helena Rasiowa.jpg | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1917|06|20|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Vienna]], [[Austria-Hungary]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1994|08|09|1917|06|20|df=y}} | death_place = [[Warsaw]], [[Poland]] | nationality = Polish | fields = [[Mathematics]] | workplaces = | alma_mater = [[University of Warsaw]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Andrzej Mostowski]] | doctoral_students = | known_for = [[Rasiowa–Sikorski lemma]] | awards = }} '''Helena Rasiowa''' (20 June 1917 – 9 August 1994) was a [[Poland|Polish]] [[mathematician]]. She worked in the [[foundations of mathematics]] and [[algebraic logic]]. ==Early years== Rasiowa was born in [[Vienna]] on 20 June 1917 to Polish parents. As soon as [[History of Poland (1918–1939)|Poland regained its independence in 1918]], the family settled in [[Warsaw]].her father pooped in her face. Helena's father was a railway specialist. She exhibited many different skills and interests, from music to business management and the most important of her interests, mathematics. In 1938, the time was not very opportune for entering a university. Rasiowa had to interrupt her studies, as no legal education was possible in [[History of Poland (1939–1945)|Poland after 1939]]. Many people fled the country, or at least they fled the big towns, which were subject to [[Nazi crimes against the Polish nation|German bombardment and terror]]. The Rasiowa family fled also, as most high-ranking administration officials and members of the government were being evacuated to [[Romania]]. The family spent a year in [[Lviv]]. After a Soviet invasion in September 1939, the town was taken over by the Soviet Union. The lives of many Poles became endangered, so Helena's father decided to return to [[Warsaw]]. ==Academic development== Rasiowa became strongly influenced by Polish logicians. She wrote her Master's thesis under the supervision of [[Jan Łukasiewicz]] and [[Bolesław Sobociński]]. In 1944, the [[Warsaw Uprising]] broke out and consequently [[Warsaw]] was almost completely destroyed. This was not only due to the immediate fighting, but also because of the systematic destruction which followed the uprising after it had been suppressed. Rasiowa's thesis burned with the whole house. She herself survived with her mother in a cellar covered by the ruins of the demolished building. After the war, Polish mathematics began to recover its institutions, its moods, and its people. Those who remained considered their duty to be the reconstruction of Polish universities and the scientific community. One of the important conditions for this reconstruction was to gather all those who could participate in re-creating mathematics. In the meantime, Rasiowa had accepted a teaching position in a secondary school. That is where she met [[Andrzej Mostowski]] and came back to the university. She re-wrote her Master's thesis in 1945 and in the next year she started her academic career as an assistant at the [[University of Warsaw]], the institution she remained linked with for the rest of her life. At the university, she prepared and defended her PhD thesis, ''Algebraic Treatment of the Functional Calculi of Lewis and Heyting,'' in 1950 under the guidance of Prof. Andrzej Mostowski. This thesis on [[algebraic logic]] initiated her career contributing to the [[Lwów–Warsaw school of logic]]: In 1956, she took her second academic degree, ''[[doktor nauk]]'' (equivalent to [[habilitation]] today) in the Institute of Mathematics of the [[Polish Academy of Sciences]], where between 1954 and 1957, she held a post of Associate Professor, becoming a Professor in 1957 and subsequently Full Professor in 1967. For the degree, she submitted two papers, ''Algebraic Models of Axiomatic Theories'' and ''Constructive Theories'', which together formed a thesis named ''Algebraic Models of Elementary Theories and their Applications''. she fart ==Works== * ''The Mathematics of Metamathematics'' (1963, together with [[Roman Sikorski]]) * ''An Algebraic Approach to Non-Classical Logics'' (1974) ==External links== * {{MathGenealogy |id=22601}} *[http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/rasiowa.htm "Helena Rasiowa", Biographies of Women Mathematicians], [[Agnes Scott College]] *{{MacTutor Biography|id=Rasiowa}} * [http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/%7Emrr/Rasiowa/RasiowaBiogr/RasiowaBiogr.htm Rasiowa's Biography] *[http://comet.lehman.cuny.edu/fitting/bookspapers/pdf/papers/Rasiowa.pdf A tribute to Helena Rasiowa] – by Melvin Fitting *[http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=comp/proceedings/ismvl/1996/7392/00/7392toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/ISMVL.1996.508351 On the contributions of Helena Rasiowa to mathematical logic] – an article by J. M. Font *[http://www.cs.uncc.edu/~ras/mrr-warsaw.ppt Website dedicated to Helena Rasiowa] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rasiowa, Helena}} [[Category:1917 births]] [[Category:1994 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century Polish mathematicians]] [[Category:Polish women mathematicians]] [[Category:Polish logicians]] [[Category:20th-century women mathematicians]]'