Sofja aleksandrovna janovskaja biography

  • Sofya Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya was a Soviet mathematician, philosopher and historian, specializing in the history of mathematics, mathematical logic, and philosophy of mathematics.
  • Sof'ja Aleksandrovna Janovskaja was a Polish-born mathematician who worked on the philosophy of mathematics and logic.
  • Sofya Aleksandrovna Yanovskaya was a Soviet mathematician, philosopher and historian, specializing in the history of mathematics, mathematical logic.

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    Sofia Alexandrovna YANOVSKAYA (31.01.1896, Odessa — 24.10.1966, Moscow), Soviet philosopher, logician, and organizer of science.

    Yanovskaya studied mathematics at Novorossiisky University (Odessa). In 1924 Yanovskaya entered the Institute of Red Professors (established for persons from the lower classes) and two years after graduating (1931) she became a Full Professor without defending her doctorate (her degree was defended in 1935). Yanovskaya matured as a Party functionary working with academics, and she closely followed the purity of her colleagues' thoughts as well as their ideological devotion.

    In the 1930's Yanovskaya strongly criticized idealism in mathematics, and unmasked 'the bourgeois philosophy of mathematics'. Frege, Russell, Couturat, and Cantor are, according to Yanovskaya, very close in their views to true idealism and mysticism ('the example of which is Platonism'). More generally speaking, asserts Yanovskaya, 'bourgeois science in the imperialist era doe

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    Sof'ja Aleksandrovna Janovskaja

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    January 31, 1896 - October 24, 1966

    Professor of Mathematics at Moscow State University. Received the prized Order of Lenin in 1951. In 1959 she became the first chairperson of the newly created department of mathematical logic at Moscow State University.

    References

    1. Anellis, Irving H. "Sof'ja Aleksandrovna Janovskaja," Women of Mathematics: A Bibliographic Sourcebook. Edited bygd Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell, Greenwood Press, 1987, p80-85.
    2. Bazhanov, V.A. "Restoration: S.A.Yanovskaya's Path In Logic", History and Philosophy of Logic, Vol. 22, No. 3 (2001), 129-133.
    3. MathSciNet [subscription required]
    4. Author Profile at zbMath
    5. Biography at the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive
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    Sofia A. Yanovskaya: The Marxist Pioneer of Mathematical Logic in the Soviet Union

    Transversal: International Journal for the Historiography of Science 2019 (6): 49-64 ISSN 2526-2270 www.historiographyofscience.org Belo Horizonte – MG / Brazil © The Author 2019 – This is an open access article Special Issue – Women in Sciences: Historiography of Science and History of Science on the Work of Women in Sciences and Philosophy Sofia A. Yanovskaya: The Marxist Pioneer of Mathematical Logic in the Soviet Union Dimitris Kilakos1 Abstract K. Marx’s 200th jubilee coincides with the celebration of the 85 years from the first publication of his “Mathematical Manuscripts” in 1933. Its editor, Sofia Alexandrovna Yanovskaya (1896–1966), was a renowned Soviet mathematician, whose significant studies on the foundations of mathematics and mathematical logic, as well as on the history and philosophy of mathematics are unduly neglected nowadays. Yanovskaya, as a militant Marxist, was actively engaged