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==Mathematics== * Polish mathematicians [[Stefan Banach]] and [[Alfred Tarski]] publish the [[Banach–Tarski paradox]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Banach|first1=Stefan|last2=Tarski|first2=Alfred|title=Sur la décomposition des ensembles de points en parties respectivement congruentes|journal=[[Fundamenta Mathematicae]]|volume=6|year=1924|pages=244–277|url=http://matwbn.icm.edu.pl/ksiazki/fm/fm6/fm6127.pdf|doi=10.4064/fm-6-1-244-277|doi-access=free}}</ref> * German mathematician [[David Hilbert]] proposes [[Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel]].<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=George Gamow|last=Gamow|first=George|year=1947|title=One Two Three ... Infinity|location=New York|publisher=Viking Press|page=17|title-link=One Two Three ... Infinity}}</ref> * Polish logician [[Jan Łukasiewicz]] devises [[reverse Polish notation]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Elementy logiki matematycznej|last=Łukasiewicz|first=Jan|location=Warsaw|publisher=Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe|year=1929}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Aristotle's Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic|first=Jan|last=Łukasiewicz|year=1951|chapter=IV. Aristotle's System in Symbolic Form|page=78}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Aristotle's Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logic|last=Łukasiewicz|first=Jan|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1957|edition=2nd}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first=Charles Leonard|last=Hamblin|author-link=Charles Leonard Hamblin|date=1962-11-01|title=Translation to and from Polish notation|journal=Computer Journal|volume=5|issue=3|pages=210–213}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Algorithms for RPN Calculators|first=John A.|last=Ball|year=1978|publisher=Wiley|location=Cambridge, Mass.|isbn=0-471-03070-8|page=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=RPN Perspective|first=John|last=Kennedy|journal=PPC Calculator Journal|volume=9|number=5|date=August 1982|pages=26–29}}</ref>
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