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|Version for printing| Stanislaw Lesniewski's name should be
written as Leniewski but is usually transliterated as Lesniewski
and we will use this form throughout this article. Lesniewski's
father was Isydor Lesniewski, a Polish railway engineer. It was
a job which involved Isydor Lesniewski being sent to places
where railways were being constructed and at the stage when
Stanislaw was attending secondary school the family were living
in Siberia. Stanislaw attended school there in the town of
Irkutsk. He studied at several universities, spending some time
in Munich where he attended lecturers by Hans Cornelius, before
taking his doctorate at the Polish University of Lwów (now Lvov,
Ukraine but then under the control of Austria). In Lwów he
studied mainly philosophy and also took mathematics courses,
attending mathematics lectures by Jozef Puzyna and Waclaw
Sierpinski. Lesniewski, whos