Pykna was born in Riga, Russian Empire, to Polish parents Kazimierz Indan Pykno and Benigna Norwillo.
He spent his early childhood travelling with his parents through Russia; they returned to Poland (Kunow and Odrowaz).
[1] He became an assistant in the Philosophy department of Stefan Batory University while working on his PhD in the subject of ethics[2] He was nominated as senior assistant to the department of Philosophy starting on 1 September 1939,[3] which was the day World War II started; the university was evacuated to Poland.
In 1945 he worked in the department of logic studies at the university as a senior assistant to professor Tadeusz Czezowski.
He started publishing his works: "Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Etranger", "Pozytywizm etyczny Emila Durkheima" (Emile Durkheim's ethical positivism; 1960),[5] "Set of tasks of probability and mathematical statistics" (1962)[6] "Cohorts method applied to arrays of elimination" (1967), and "Mathematics Theory and a set of tasks" (1973).