Jan Śniadecki was a Polish mathematician, philosopher and astronomer at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, born in Żnin on 29 August 1756 and dead at Jašiūnai Manor near Vilnius on 9 November 1830. He studied at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and in Paris, was rector of the Imperial University of Vilnius and a member of the Commission of National Education, and directed the astronomical observatories at Kraków and Vilnius. His works include a theory of algebraic calculation in 1783, a mathematical and physical description of the earth in 1804, a discourse on Copernicus in 1802, an analytic treatise on spherical trigonometry in 1817, and On the Calculation of Chance of 1817, a work in probability. A lunar crater and the asteroid 1262 Sniadeckia are named for him.
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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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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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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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He was rector of the Imperial University of Vilnius, a member of the Commission of National Education, and director of astronomical observatories at Kraków (055) and Vilnius.
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His O rachunku losów (On the Calculation of Chance, 1817) was a work in probability.
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