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Marcin Mostowski (1955-2017)

Professor Marcin Mostowski has passed away last Saturday, October 28th, 
2017. He was an extremely inspiring teacher, great friend, charismatic 
logician and philosopher. He has been consistently teaching that 
understanding logic is a fundament of liberal arts education.

For many years Marcin Mostowski was a philosophy professor at the Warsaw 
University. He re-created the Warsaw Logic School in the 1990s bringing 
together philosophers, mathematicians, and computer scientists. His 
dedication to teaching and research has tremendously influenced a few 
generations of polish logicians. Every year he organized the Summer Logic 
Workshop and led the unforgettable seminars on Friday evenings and 
Saturday mornings. For many students, particularly philosophy 
undergraduates, these seminars were the first contact with research in 
mathematical logic. He created an atmosphere of friendship, passion and 
focus; spending countless hours discussing with students not only in 
seminar rooms but also in various parks and cafes around Warsaw. Recently, 
he moved to Jagiellonian University in Krakw to take the chair of logic 
at the philosophy department. Sadly, he did not have time to establish a 
new group there.

Marcin has authored a number of insightful papers in the theory of 
generalized quantifiers, finite model theory, philosophy of mathematics, 
and logical theory of natural language. In the 90s together with M. 
Krynicki and L.W. Szczerba he edited a two volume handbook of generalized 
quantifiers ?Quantifiers: Logics, Models and Computations?. He initiated 
the study of natural language semantics with computational complexity 
tools. He has also proposed the theory of representability of arithmetical 
notions in finite models to investigate philosophical idea of representing 
infinite sets in finite but potentially infinite domains. He was also one 
of the first people in Warsaw to realize the mathematical potential in 
cognitive modeling. He started an interdisciplinary seminar on cognitive 
science that later grew in the cognitive science program at the Warsaw 
University.

The memorial service will take place Friday, November 3, at 14.30 in 
Zyrardw, Warynskiego 7.
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