Fundamenta Mathematicae is a scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 of mathematics

Mathematics

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 with a special focus on the foundations of mathematics

Foundations of mathematics

Foundations of mathematics is a term sometimes used for certain fields of mathematics, such as mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, proof theory, model theory, type theory and recursion theory...

. At present, it concentrates on papers devoted to set theory

Set theory

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, mathematical logic

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, topology

Topology

Topology is a major area of mathematics concerned with properties that are preserved under continuous deformations of objects, such as deformations that involve stretching, but no tearing or gluing...

 and its interactions with algebra

Algebra

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, and dynamical system

Dynamical system

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s. The journal is published by the Mathematics Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Polish Academy of Sciences

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It was a brainchild of Zygmunt Janiszewski

Zygmunt Janiszewski

Zygmunt Janiszewski was a Polish mathematician.-Life:His mother was Julia Szulc-Chojnicka. His father, Czeslaw Janiszewski, was a graduate of the University of Warsaw and was an important person in finance, being the director of the Société du Crédit Municipal in Warsaw.Janiszewski taught at the...

 and founded in 1920 by the Polish mathematician

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s Wacław Sierpiński, Stefan Mazurkiewicz

Stefan Mazurkiewicz

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, and Janiszewski, and published in Warsaw

Warsaw

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. Soon thereafter they were joined by Kazimierz Kuratowski

Kazimierz Kuratowski

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, and later by Karol Borsuk

Karol Borsuk

Karol Borsuk was a Polish mathematician.His main interest was topology.Borsuk introduced the theory of absolute retracts and absolute neighborhood retracts , and the cohomotopy groups, later called Borsuk-Spanier cohomotopy groups. He also founded the so called Shape theory...

. The journal was devoted only to topology

Topology

Topology is a major area of mathematics concerned with properties that are preserved under continuous deformations of objects, such as deformations that involve stretching, but no tearing or gluing...

, set theory

Set theory

Set theory is the branch of mathematics that studies sets, which are collections of objects. Although any type of object can be collected into a set, set theory is applied most often to objects that are relevant to mathematics...

 and foundations of mathematics

Foundations of mathematics

Foundations of mathematics is a term sometimes used for certain fields of mathematics, such as mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, proof theory, model theory, type theory and recursion theory...

. It was the first specialized journal in the history of mathematics.