Adolf Lindenbaum
Adolf Lindenbaum | |
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 c. 1922 | |
| Born | June 12, 1904 Warsaw, Poland |
| Died | August 1941 (aged 37) Naujoji Vilnia, Lithuania |
| Nationality | Polish |
| Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
| Known for | Lindenbaum–Tarski algebra, Lindenbaum's lemma |
| Spouse | Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Logic, mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Warsaw |
| Thesis | On metric properties of point sets (1928) |
| Doctoral advisor | Wacław Sierpiński |
Adolf Lindenbaum (12 June 1904.
Life
He was born and brought up in
logical empiricism, participated in and contributed to the international unity of science movement, and were members of the original Vienna Circle. Sometime before the middle of August 1941 he and his sister Stefanja were shot to death in Naujoji Vilnia (Nowa Wilejka), 7 km east of Vilnius, by the occupying German forces or Lithuanian collaborators.[2]
References
- S2CID 33968008.
- ^ Purdy, Robert; Zygmunt, Jan (2018-06-29). "Adolf Lindenbaum, Metric Spaces and Decompositions". The Lvov–Warsaw School. Past and Present, ed. by Ángel Garrido and Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska, Birkhäuser: Basel 2018, p. 518. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65430-0_36. ISSN 2297-0282.
External links
- Adolf Lindenbaum entry at The Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy by Jan Woleński(includes a portrait)
- An Open Access article on Lindenbaum's life and works in Logica Universalis, Volume 8, Issue 3–4 (December 2014), pp 285–320 [note: the authors revisited the life of Adolf Lindenbaum in light of new research findings in a later non Open Access paper here.
- Page on Sierpinski, contains fragments of his memoirs mentioning the murder of Lindenbaum
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Adolf Lindenbaum", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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