Helena Rasiowa

Helena Rasiowa ( born June 20, 1917 in Vienna, † 9 August 1994 in Warsaw) was a Polish mathematician.

Life

Helena Rasiowa was born in Vienna. Her parents were both Polish and moved 1918 to newly independent Poland. Since 1938, she studied at the University of Warsaw, during the war in the underground, because the university had been closed by the Nazis. After the war she worked as a teacher, but was then moved by Andrzej Mostowski to return to the University, where she was in 1950 received his doctorate with a thesis on " Algebraic Treatment of the Functional Calculus of Lewis and Heyting ." In 1957 she was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Warsaw in 1967 full professor.

Rasiowa dealt with algebraic logic and foundations of mathematics. She was a member of the Polish Mathematical Society. The lemma of Rasiowa - Sikorski is associated with her name.