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Name
  
Jan Sniadecki

Education
  
Jagiellonian University

Role
  
Mathematician


Born
  
August 29, 1756 (
1756-08-29
)
Znin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Occupation
  
Mathematician, philosopher, astronomer

Relatives
  
Jedrzej Sniadecki (brother)

Died
  
November 9, 1830, Jasiunai Manor

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Jan Śniadecki (29 August 1756 – 9 November 1830) was a Polish mathematician, philosopher and astronomer at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Life

Born in Żnin, Śniadecki studied at Kraków University and in Paris. He was rector of the Imperial University of Vilnius, a member of the Commission of National Education, and director of astronomical observatories at Kraków and Vilnius. He died at Jašiūnai Manor near Vilnius.

Śniadecki published many works, including his observations on recently discovered planetoids. His O rachunku losów (On the Calculation of Chance, 1817) was a work in probability.

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He was brother to Jędrzej Śniadecki.

Works

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  • "Rachunku algebraicznego teoria" (1783)
  • "Geografia, czyli opisanie matematyczne i fizyczne ziemi" (1804)
  • "Rozprawa o Koperniku" ( Discourse on Nicolaus Copernicus, biography, 1802)
  • "O rachunku losów" (1817)
  • "Trygonometria kulista analitycznie wyłożona" (1817)
  • "O pismach klasycznych i romantycznych", Dziennik Wileński (1819)
  • "Filozofia umysłu ludzkiego" (1821)

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    References

    Jan Śniadecki Wikipedia


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