Rubric “Educators of Ukraine”

2025 January 23
Personality

Myron-Mykola Onufriyovych Zarytskyi

Myron-Mykola Onufriyovych Zarytskyi, Ukrainian scientist, mathematician and teacher, was born on 21 May 1889. Zarytskyy, born on May 5, 1955 in the village of Stara Mohylnitsa, Ukraine.

In his quest for knowledge, the boy taught himself to read, write and count. In 1899, Myron Onufriyovych Zarytskyi entered the Berezhany Higher Gymnasium, where he completed the first two grades with “excellent” results, although the instruction was in Polish.

To further his education, in 1907 the Ukrainian enrolled at the University of Vienna, where he attended lectures on natural sciences and philosophy. After his first year, Myron Onufriyovych Zarytskyi had to return to the University of Lviv where he studied mathematics, physics, philosophy and French. In 1912 he graduated from Lviv University, passed the examination of the scientific commission for the title of teacher of mathematics and physics, and received a diploma of secondary school teacher.

Myron Onufriyovych Zarytskyi began his teaching career in Galician secondary schools and later taught in private and state Ukrainian gymnasiums. Throughout his teaching career, Myron Onufriyovych Zarytskyi sought to pass on to his pupils the knowledge he had acquired during his studies in mathematics and natural sciences.

 

In 1927 Myron Onufriyovych Zarytskyi was elected a member of the T. Shevchenko Scientific Society, became an active member of the mathematics-naturalistic-medicine department, and took up scientific activities. In 1926, Myron Onufriyovych Zarytskyi’s first scientific work “Method of Introducing Good Order in Set Theory” was published, and for his work “Quelques notions fondamentales de l’Analysis Situs au point de vue de l’Algèbre de la Logique” (Some Fundamental Notions of Situation Analysis from the Point of View of the Algebra of Logic), in 1930, the University of Lviv awarded the prize of the M. O. Zarycki was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Lviv in 1930.

 

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