Biography:Anita Burdman Feferman
Anita Burdman Feferman (July 27, 1927 – April 9, 2015) was an American historian of mathematics and biographer, known for her biographies of Jean van Heijenoort and (with her husband, logician Solomon Feferman) of Alfred Tarski.[1][2]
Life
Feferman was born on July 27, 1927. She was originally from Los Angeles , and attended Hollywood High School and the University of California, Los Angeles before earning a bachelor's degree in 1948 from the University of California, Berkeley. She became a schoolteacher in the Oakland, California school system, and earned another degree in teaching from UC Berkeley. In 1956 her husband Solomon Feferman took a position at Stanford University, and she moved with him and their two daughters from the East Bay to the San Francisco Peninsula. She died on April 9, 2015.[3]
Books
At Stanford, Feferman became a member of a biography seminar led by Barbara A. Babcock and Diane Middlebrook.[3] Her first biography, of Jean van Heijenoort, was Politics, Logic, and Love: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort (Jones and Bartlett, 1993), also published as From Trotsky to Gödel: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort (CRC Press, 2001).[4] With Solomon Feferman, she was the co-author of a biography of Alfred Tarski, Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic (Cambridge University Press, 2004).[5]
References
- ↑ Zach, Richard (April 22, 2015), Anita Burdman Feferman, 1927-2015, https://richardzach.org/2015/04/22/anita-burdman-feferman-1927-2015/
- ↑ Feferman, Anita Burdman 1927-, Cengage, https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/feferman-anita-burdman-1927, retrieved 2019-10-05
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Anita Burdman Feferman, July 27, 1927–April 9, 2015, Stanford, California", Palo Alto Express, https://www.paloaltoonline.com/obituaries/print/anita-burdman-feferman?o=4251
- ↑ Reviews of The Life of Jean van Heijenoort:
- Struik, D. J. (1993), "none", Mathematical Reviews
- Carpenter, Kenneth E. (Spring 1993), "none", Harvard Review 4 (4): 213–214
- Enderton, H. B. (December 1993), "none", The Journal of Symbolic Logic 58 (4): 1465–1466, doi:10.2307/2275157
- Steiner, George (December 20, 1993), "none", The New Yorker: 139
- Dummett, Michael (January 6, 1994), "Blood and logic", London Review of Books 16 (1): 14–15, https://www.lrb.co.uk/v16/n01/michael-dummett/blood-and-logic
- Nunemacher, Jeffrey (1995), "none", American Mathematical Monthly 102 (2): 178–179, doi:10.2307/2975364
- Murawski, Roman (1995), "Review", Modern Logic 5 (2): 211–214, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rml/1204835491
- Enderton, H. B. (March 2002), "none", Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 8 (1): 104, doi:10.2178/bsl/1182353862
- Dawson, John W. (June 2003), "none", The Mathematical Intelligencer 25 (2): 78–79, doi:10.1007/bf02984839
- ↑ Reviews of Alfred Tarski:
- Dauben, Joseph W. (2005), "none", Mathematical Reviews
- Anellis, Irving H. (2005), "Review", The Review of Modern Logic 10 (1–2): 117–130, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.rml/1203432186
- Davis, Philip J. (March 2005), "A life of logic and the illogic of life", SIAM News, https://archive.siam.org/news/news.php?id=35
- Davis, Martin (March–April 2005), "The Man Who Defined Truth", American Scientist 93 (2): 175–177
- Shell-Gellasch, Amy (May 2005), "Review", MAA Reviews, https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/alfred-tarski-life-and-logic
- Misiuna, Krystyna (May 2005), "none", History and Philosophy of Logic 26 (2): 166–168, doi:10.1080/01445340412331313602
- Mendelson, Elliott (June 2005), "none", Philosophia Mathematica 13 (2): 231–232, doi:10.1093/philmat/nki020
- Kilmister, C. W. (July 2005), "none", The Mathematical Gazette 89 (515): 330–331, doi:10.1017/S0025557200177988
- Schmit, Roger (Fall 2005), "none", Archives de Philosophie 68 (3): 546–547
- Maddux, Roger D. (December 2005), "none", The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 11 (4): 535–540, doi:10.1017/S1079898600003000
- "none", Kybernetes 35 (1/2), January 2006, doi:10.1108/k.2006.06735aae.002
- Lescanne, Pierre (March 2006), "none", ACM SIGACT News 37 (1): 27, doi:10.1145/1122480.1122489
- Carnielli, Walter (March 2006), "none", Logic and Logical Philosophy 15 (1), doi:10.12775/llp.2006.005
- Wood, Carol (April 2006), "none", The American Mathematical Monthly 113 (4): 377–379, doi:10.2307/27641942
- Oberdan, Thomas (June 2006), "none", Isis 97 (2): 362–363, doi:10.1086/507375
- Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (September 2006), "none", The British Journal for the History of Science 39 (3): 469–470, doi:10.1017/S0007087406438681
- Apt, Krzysztof R. (March 2007), "Alfred Tarski: life and logic", The Mathematical Intelligencer 29 (2): 78–80, doi:10.1007/bf02986214
- Sinaceur, Hourya Benis (September 2007), "Review", Notices of the American Mathematical Society 54 (8): 986–989, https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/200708/tx070800986p.pdf
- Bassols, Alejandro Tomasini (April 2006), "none", Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía 38 (112): 105–111
- Brown, Scott H. (March 2009), "none", The Mathematics Teacher 102 (7): 558
- Bremer, Manuel (December 2009), "Review", Philosophy in Review 29 (6): 404, https://go.galegroup.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA387953546
- Nerode, Anil (March 2010), "none", The American Mathematical Monthly 117 (3): 286–288, doi:10.4169/000298910x480144
- Czernecka-Rej, Bożena (2011), "none", Roczniki Filozoficzne 59 (1): 79–84
External links
- Feferman (Anita Burdman) Papers, Stanford University Archives, via Online Archive of California
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