Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic - Hardcover

Feferman, Anita Burdman; Feferman, Solomon

 
9780521802406: Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic

Synopsis

A frank, vivid picture of a personally and professionally passionate man, interlaced with an account of his major scientific achievements.

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About the Authors

Anita Burdman Feferman is an independent scholar and writer. She is the author of Politics, Logic and Love: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort (published in paperback as From Trotsky to Gödel: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort). She knew Alfred Tarski socially for thirty years.

Solomon Feferman is on the faculty of Stanford University, California, where he is Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy. He is a recipient of the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has held a Guggenheim fellowship twice. He is the author of In the Light of Logic and the editor-in-chief of the multi-volume Kurt Gödel: Collected Works. He was one of Tarski's students at UC Berkeley in the 1950s.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008
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