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Adolf Lindenbaum

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Adolf Lindenbaum · Science & Medicine

What

Mathematical logic; Lindenbaum's lemma

When

1904, Warsaw, Poland (then Russian Empire) — 1941, near Vilnius

Where

Poland

Biography

Adolf Lindenbaum is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Mathematical logic; Lindenbaum's lemma

How & why

Adolf Lindenbaum was a Polish logician of the Warsaw school of mathematics who made key contributions to set theory, model theory and metalogic, remembered above all for Lindenbaum's lemma on extending consistent theories to complete ones. Born into a Jewish family in Warsaw, he was murdered by the Nazis in 1941.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics

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Mathematical logic; Lindenbaum's lemma

1904

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics