Person: Poretsky, Platon Sergeevich

Platon Sergeevich Poretsky was a Russian astronomer, mathematician, and logician.

We incorporate some information discovered by Bazhanov in the biographical details of Poretsky that we give below.
Platon Sergeevich Poretsky attended Poltava Gymnasium and, after graduating, he entered the Physical-Mathematical Faculty of Kharkov University.
He reviewed Poretsky's thesis, giving it the highest grade.
On 31 May 1886 the decision of the Board was approved by the Council of Kazan University and on 31 December 1886 Poretsky was promoted to a Privatdozent.
However, the award of the doctorate was not made until Poretsky, because of ill health, filed his resignation on 4 March 1889.
Poretsky received his doctorate on 5 April.
Poretsky became interested in logic through Alexander V Vasiliev soon after arriving in Kazan in 1876.
In session 1887-1888, Poretsky lectured on mathematical logic, the first time that such a course had been given in Russia.
In the annals of history his name is clearly spelled out - Platon Sergeevich Poretsky.

Born 15 October 1846, Elisavetgrad (now Kropyvnytskyi), Ukraine. Died 22 August 1907, Joved, Chernigov guberniya, Russia.

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