Heinrich Behmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German mathematician
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Place of Birth: Bremen, Germany
About Heinrich Behmann
- Heinrich Behmann (10 January 1891, in Bremen-Aumund – 3 February 1970, in Bremen-Aumund) was a German mathematician.
- He performed research in the field of set theory and predicate logic. Behmann studied mathematics in Tübingen, Leipzig and Göttingen.
- During World War I, he was wounded and received the Iron Cross 2nd Class.
- David Hilbert supervised the preparation of his doctoral thesis, Die Antinomie der transfiniten Zahl und ihre Auflösung durch die Theorie von Russell und Whitehead.
- In 1922 Behmann proved that the monadic predicate calculus is decidable.
- In 1938 he obtained a professorial chair in mathematics at Halle (Saale).
- In 1945 he was dismissed for having been a member of the NSDAP.
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