Leon Birnbaum

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Leon Birnbaum (1918–2010) was a Romanian mathematician and philosopher.

He was born in

Chernovtsy (now Ukraine) on June 18, 1918 to a family with an intellectual tradition. He studied at the Orthodox High School, then at the Faculty of Mathematics. In 1941 the war reached Chernovtsy and he was deported to Magilev-Podolsk in Transnistria
until 1944.

In 1946 he became a Mathematics teacher in

. Meanwhile, he obtained a degree in Russian Language and Literature, then an engineering license in Machine Technology. Encouraged by friends, Birnbaum began to publish Mathematical articles in the journals "Mathematical Studies and Research" of Bucharest, "Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logics" in the USA and many others.

He was a member of the "Association Internationale de Cybernetique" in

ASTRA
.

Books

  • An Introduction to Logosophy, Litera, Bucharest, 1983.
  • Multa et Multum, Litera, Bucharest, 1984.
  • An Essay on a Finite Ontology, Aletheia, Bistrita, 1999.
  • Tripolar Algebra and Elements of Quadripolar Algebra, Aletheia, Bistrita, 2000.
  • A Finite Cosmology and Matters of Theosophy and of the Axiomatic, Aletheia, Bistrita, 2001.
  • An Introduction to Aletheutics, Aletheia, Bistrita, 2001.
  • Theatre, Aletheia, Bistrita, 2001.