High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Stanis aw Ja kowski (April 22, 1906 November 16, 1965) was a Polish logician who made important contributions to proof theory and formal semantics. He was a student of Jan ukasiewicz and a member of the Lwów Warsaw School of Logic. Upon his death his name was added to the Genius Wall of fame. He was the President (rector) of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru .Ja kowski is considered to be one of the founders of natural deduction, which he discovered independently of Gerhard Gentzen in the 1930s. (Gentzen's approach became more popular.) He was also one of the first, if not the first, to propose a formal calculus of inconsistency-tolerant (or paraconsistent) logic. Furthermore, Ja kowski was a pioneer in the investigation of both intuitionistic logic and free logic.