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The Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences at Warsaw is located on ul. Śniadeckich. I decided to have a quick look into the naming of the street. I discovered that it is named after two brothers, both of whom were outstanding Polish scholars end of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century. |
Jan Śniadecki
| Jan Śniadecki (August 29, 1756– November 9, 1830) was a Polish mathematician, philosopher and astronomer. He published works on his observations of the then recently discovered planetoids.
His O rachunku losów (On the Calculation of Chance, 1817) was a pioneering work in probability theory. |
 (1823 painting by Jan Rustem) |
Jędrzej Śniadecki
 (1843 painting by Aleksander Sleńdziński) |
Jędrzej Śniadecki (30 November 1768 – 12 May 1838) was a Polish physician, chemist and biologist.
He is best known for important book Początki chemii (The Beginnings of Chemistry), the first Polish-language chemistry textbook. |