Andrew McFarland Andrew McFarland Joanna Smith T. James Editors Early Work in Poland – – Poland in Work Early Geometry Teaching and Alfred Tarski Alfred

Andrew McFarland, Joanna McFarland, James T. Smith, Eds. Alfred Tarski 9 3 7 4 1 9 3 9 4 1 8 7 ISBN 978-1-4939-1473-9 9 Early Work in Poland – Geometry and Teaching – Geometry and Poland in Early Work Alfred Tarski (  – ) was a renowned Polish/American mathematician, a giant of of giant a mathematician, Polish/American renowned a was (  – ) Tarski Alfred set theory, foundations of geometry, establish the century, who helped the twentieth his career, he taught logic, and universal algebra. Throughout model theory, algebraic schools. Many of his at universities and sometimes in secondary mathematics and logic mathematicians most to inaccessible remained and Polish in were  before writings now. and historians until mathe- early contributions to geometry and focuses on Tarski’s This self-contained book decomposition of paradoxical the famous Banach–Tarski matics education, including are themes These pedagogy. and topics mathematical high-school as well as sphere a in part on geometry and its foundations stemmed later research cant since Tarski’s signifi and teacher-trainer. as a high-school mathematics teacher from his early employment social background translations and much newly uncovered The book contains careful years in Poland. during Tarski’s of these works written Alfred in Poland – Geometry Tarski: Early Work and Teaching serves the mathematical, early Tarski’s publishing by communities historical and philosophical, educational, background from archival work in Poland, writings in a broadly accessible form, providing bibliography. and updating Tarski’s Alfred Tarski Tarski Alfred Andrew McFarland, Joanna McFarland, James T. Smith, Editors James T. McFarland, Joanna McFarland, Andrew