Adolf Lindenbaum
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Adolf Lindenbaum was a Polish
logician and mathematician
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He was a student of Wacław Sierpiński, became a distinguished author of works on set theory
and had served as an Assistant Professor at Warsaw University. He was killed by the Nazis in Paneriai (Ponary), near Vilnius
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Among his most famous works are the Lindenbaum's lemma
and Lindenbaum-Tarski algebra.
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
logician and mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
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He was a student of Wacław Sierpiński, became a distinguished author of works on 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 had served as an Assistant Professor at Warsaw University. He was killed by the Nazis in Paneriai (Ponary), near Vilnius
Vilnius
Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...
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Among his most famous works are the Lindenbaum's lemma
Lindenbaum's lemma
In mathematical logic, Lindenbaum's lemma states that any consistent theory of predicate logic can be extended to a complete consistent theory. It is used in the proof of Gödel's completeness theorem, among other places...
and Lindenbaum-Tarski algebra.
External links
- Page on Sierpinski, contains fragments of his memoirs mentioning the murder of Lindenbaum
- An entry about Lindenbaum written by Edward MarczewskiEdward MarczewskiEdward Marczewski was a Polish mathematician. His surname until 1940 was Szpilrajn.Marczewski was a member of the Warsaw School of Mathematics...
and Andrzej MostowskiAndrzej MostowskiAndrzej Mostowski was a Polish mathematician. He is perhaps best remembered for the Mostowski collapse lemma....
, Polski słownik biograficzny, Tom XVII, p. 364–365