Biography:Solomon Feferman
Solomon Feferman | |
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 Solomon Feferman at the Association of Symbolic Logic, Pittsburgh, May 2004 | |
| Born | December 13, 1928 The Bronx, New York City, US |
| Died | July 26, 2016 (aged 87) Stanford, California, US |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic Predicativism |
| Thesis | Formal Consistency Proofs and Interpretability of Theories (1957) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Tarski |
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Main interests | Philosophy of mathematics Proof theory Theory of computation |
Notable ideas | Stratified systems for the foundations of category theory[1] Feferman–Schütte ordinal Ordinal collapsing function Explicit mathematics |
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Solomon Feferman (December 13, 1928 – July 26, 2016)[2] was an American philosopher and mathematician who worked in mathematical logic. In addition to his prolific technical work in proof theory, computability theory, and set theory, he was known for his contributions to the history of logic (for instance, via biographical writings on figures such as Kurt Gödel, Alfred Tarski, and Jean van Heijenoort) and as a vocal proponent of the philosophy of mathematics known as predicativism, notably from an anti-platonist stance.
Life
Solomon Feferman was born in The Bronx in New York City to working-class parents who had immigrated to the United States after World War I and had met and married in New York. Neither parent had any advanced education. The family moved to Los Angeles, where Feferman graduated from high school at age 16.
He received his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1948, and in 1957 his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, under Alfred Tarski,[3] after having been drafted and having served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955. In 1956 he was appointed to the Departments of Mathematics and Philosophy at Stanford University, where he later became the Patrick Suppes Professor of Humanities and Sciences. While the majority of his career was spent at Stanford, he also spent time as a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a visiting professor at MIT, and a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford (Wolfson College and All Souls College). [4]
Feferman died on 26 July 2016 at his home in Stanford, following an illness that lasted three months and a stroke.[2][5][6] At his death, he had been a member of the Mathematical Association of America for 37 years.[7]
Contributions
Feferman was editor-in-chief of the five-volume Collected Works of Kurt Gödel, published by Oxford University Press between 2001 and 2013.
In 2004, together with his wife Anita Burdman Feferman, he published a biography of Alfred Tarski: Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic.[8]
He worked on predicative mathematics, in particular introducing the Feferman–Schütte ordinal as a measure of the strength of certain predicative systems.
Recognition
Feferman was awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1972 and 1986[9] and the Rolf Schock Prize in logic and philosophy in 2003.[10] He was invited to give the Gödel Lecture in 1997[11] and the Tarski Lectures in 2006.[12] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[13]
Publications
Papers
- Feferman, Solomon; Vaught, Robert L. (1959), "The first order properties of products of algebraic systems", Fund. Math. 47, 57–103.
- Feferman, Solomon (1975), "A language and axioms for explicit mathematics", Algebra and logic (Fourteenth Summer Res. Inst., Austral. Math. Soc., Monash Univ., Clayton, 1974), pp. 87–139, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 450, Berlin, Springer.
- Feferman, Solomon (1979), "Constructive theories of functions and classes", Logic Colloquium '78 (Mons, 1978), pp. 159–224, Stud. Logic Foundations Math., 97, Amsterdam, New York, North-Holland.
- Buchholz, Wilfried; Feferman, Solomon; Pohlers, Wolfram; Sieg, Wilfried (1981), "Iterated inductive definitions and subsystems of analysis: recent proof-theoretical studies", Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 897, Berlin, New York, Springer-Verlag.
- Feferman, Solomon; Hellman, Geoffrey (1995), "Predicative foundations of arithmetic", J. Philos. Logic 24 (1), 1–17.
- Avigad, Jeremy; Feferman, Solomon (1998), "Gödel's functional (Dialectica) interpretation", Handbook of proof theory, 337–405, Stud. Logic Found. Math., 137, Amsterdam, North-Holland.
Books
- Feferman, Solomon. (1998). In the Light of Logic. Oxford University Press. ISBN:0-19-508030-0, Logic and Computation in Philosophy series.[14]
- Feferman, Anita Burdman; Feferman, Solomon (2004). Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-80240-6. OCLC 54691904. https://archive.org/details/alfredtarskilife0000fefe.[8]
See also
References
- ↑ "Enriched Stratified systems for the Foundations of Category Theory" by Solomon Feferman (2011)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Solomon Feferman (1928-2016)". http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/newsitem.php?id=7645.
- ↑ Solomon Feferman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Solomon Feferman's homepage". http://math.stanford.edu/~feferman.
- ↑ Lanier Anderson, R. (4 August 2016). "A tribute to Solomon Feferman (1928–2016)". https://philosophy.stanford.edu/news/tribute-solomon-feferman-1928–2016.
- ↑ "Stanford mathematical logician Solomon Feferman dies at 87" (in en). 7 October 2016. https://news.stanford.edu/2016/10/07/mathematical-logician-solomon-feferman-dies/.
- ↑ "In Memoriam | Mathematical Association of America". https://www.maa.org/news/memoriam.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 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
- ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Solomon Feferman". http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/solomon-feferman/.
- ↑ "Feferman awarded Rolf Schock Prize in logic and philosophy". http://news.stanford.edu/news/2003/june4/feferman-64.html.
- ↑ "Gödel Lecturers – Association for Symbolic Logic" (in en-US). https://aslonline.org/other-information/prizes-and-awards/godel-lecturers/.
- ↑ "The Tarski Lectures | Department of Mathematics at University of California Berkeley". https://math.berkeley.edu/about/events/lectures/tarski.
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved December 2, 2012.
- ↑ Reviews of In the Light of Logic:
- Avigad, Jeremy (December 1999), "[Untitled"], The Journal of Philosophy 96 (12): 638–642, doi:10.2307/2564698, https://semanticscholar.org/paper/08b0919ef041a5a92a8093f5f6b3f5f8a5ecd78e
- Antonelli, G. Aldo (June 2001), "none", The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 7 (2): 270–277, doi:10.2307/2687778
- Mendelson, E. (2001), "none", Mathematical Reviews
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