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'''Adolf Lindenbaum''' (12 June 1904<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Zygmunt|first=Jan|last2=Purdy|first2=Robert|date=2014-12-01|title=Adolf Lindenbaum: Notes on his Life, with Bibliography and Selected References|journal=Logica Universalis|language=en|volume=8|issue=3–4|pages=285–320|doi=10.1007/s11787-014-0108-2|issn=1661-8297}}</ref>&nbsp;– August 1941), was a [[History_of_the_Jews_in_Poland|Polish-Jewish]] [[logician]] and [[mathematician]].
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'''Adolf Lindenbaum''' (12 June 1904<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Zygmunt|first1=Jan|last2=Purdy|first2=Robert|date=2014-12-01|title=Adolf Lindenbaum: Notes on his Life, with Bibliography and Selected References|url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11787-014-0108-2.pdf|journal=[[Logica Universalis]]|language=en|volume=8|issue=3–4|pages=285–320|doi=10.1007/s11787-014-0108-2|s2cid=33968008|issn=1661-8297|doi-access=free}}</ref>&nbsp;– August 1941) was a [[History of the Jews in Poland|Polish-Jewish]] [[logician]] and [[mathematician]] best known for [[Lindenbaum's lemma]] and [[Lindenbaum–Tarski algebra]]s.
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He was born and brought up in Warsaw. He earned a Ph.D. in 1928 under [[Wacław Sierpiński]] and [[habilitation|habilitated]] at [[Warsaw University]] in 1934. He published works on mathematical logic, set theory, cardinal and ordinal arithmetic, the axiom of choice, the continuum hypothesis, theory of functions, measure theory, point set topology, geometry and real analysis. He served as an [[Assistant Professor]] at [[Warsaw University]] from 1935 until the outbreak of war in September 1939. He was Alfred Tarski's closest collaborator of the inter-war period. Around the end of October or beginning of November 1935 he married [[Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum|Janina Hosiasson]], a fellow logician of the [[Lwow-Warsaw school]]. He and his wife were adherents of 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.<ref name=":1">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, pp. 505–550. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65430-0_36. ISSN 2297-0282.</ref>


== Life ==
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His most cited works are [[Lindenbaum's lemma]] and [[Lindenbaum–Tarski algebra|Lindenbaum algebras]].
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He was born and brought up in [[Warsaw]]. He earned a Ph.D. in 1928 under [[Wacław Sierpiński]] and [[habilitation|habilitated]] at the [[University of Warsaw]] in 1934. He published works on [[mathematical logic]], [[set theory]], [[cardinal arithmetic|cardinal]] and [[ordinal arithmetic]], the [[axiom of choice]], the [[continuum hypothesis]], [[Geometric function theory|theory of functions]], [[measure theory]], [[point-set topology]], [[geometry]] and [[real analysis]]. He served as an [[assistant professor]] at the [[University of Warsaw]] from 1935 until the outbreak of [[World War II|war]] in September 1939. He was [[Alfred Tarski]]'s closest collaborator of the inter-war period. Around the end of October or beginning of November 1935 he married [[Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum|Janina Hosiasson]], a fellow logician of the [[Lwow–Warsaw school]]. He and his wife were adherents of [[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&nbsp;km east of [[Vilnius]], by the occupying German forces or Lithuanian collaborators.<ref name=":1">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, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ueZfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA518 p. 518]. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65430-0_36. ISSN 2297-0282.</ref>

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== External links ==
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* [https://www.iep.utm.edu/lindenba/ Adolf Lindenbaum] entry at [[The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy|The Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy]] by [[Jan Woleński]] (includes a portrait)
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* An Open Access [http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s11787-014-0108-2 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 [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65430-0_36 here]].
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* [http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sierpinski.html Page on Sierpinski], contains fragments of his memoirs mentioning the murder of Lindenbaum
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== External links ==

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*[https://www.iep.utm.edu/lindenba/ Adolf Lindenbaum] entry at [[The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy|The Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy]] by [[Jan Woleński]] (includes a portrait)
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* An Open Access [https://archive.today/20150104213401/http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s11787-014-0108-2 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 [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65430-0_36 here].
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*[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sierpinski.html Page on Sierpinski], contains fragments of his memoirs mentioning the murder of Lindenbaum
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Latest revision as of 10:05, 27 January 2024

Adolf Lindenbaum
c. 1922
Born(1904-06-12)June 12, 1904
Warsaw, Poland
DiedAugust 1941(1941-08-00) (aged 37)
Naujoji Vilnia, Lithuania
NationalityPolish
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Known forLindenbaum–Tarski algebra, Lindenbaum's lemma
SpouseJanina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum
Scientific career
FieldsLogic, mathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Warsaw
Thesis On metric properties of point sets  (1928)
Doctoral advisorWacław Sierpiński

Adolf Lindenbaum (12 June 1904[1] – August 1941) was a Polish-Jewish logician and mathematician best known for Lindenbaum's lemma and Lindenbaum–Tarski algebras.

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He was born and brought up in Warsaw. He earned a Ph.D. in 1928 under Wacław Sierpiński and habilitated at the University of Warsaw in 1934. He published works on mathematical logic, set theory, cardinal and ordinal arithmetic, the axiom of choice, the continuum hypothesis, theory of functions, measure theory, point-set topology, geometry and real analysis. He served as an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw from 1935 until the outbreak of war in September 1939. He was Alfred Tarski's closest collaborator of the inter-war period. Around the end of October or beginning of November 1935 he married Janina Hosiasson, a fellow logician of the Lwow–Warsaw school. He and his wife were adherents of 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

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  1. ^ Zygmunt, Jan; Purdy, Robert (2014-12-01). "Adolf Lindenbaum: Notes on his Life, with Bibliography and Selected References" (PDF). Logica Universalis. 8 (3–4): 285–320. doi:10.1007/s11787-014-0108-2. ISSN 1661-8297. S2CID 33968008.
  2. ^ 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.
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