Adolf Lindenbaum, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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mathematician, logician
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Place of Birth: Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
About Adolf Lindenbaum
- Adolf Lindenbaum (12 June 1904 – August 1941), was a Polish-Jewish logician and mathematician best known for Lindenbaum's lemma and Lindenbaum algebras. He was born and brought up in Warsaw.
- He earned a Ph.D.
- in 1928 under Waclaw Sierpinski 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.
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