American historian of mathematics and biographer
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
^ "Feferman, Anita Burdman 1927-" , Encyclopedia.com , Cengage, retrieved 2019-10-05
^ a b "Anita Burdman Feferman, July 27, 1927–April 9, 2015, Stanford, California" , Palo Alto Express
^ Reviews of The Life of Jean van Heijenoort :
Struik, D. J. (1993), Mathematical Reviews , MR 1193227 {{citation }}
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Carpenter, Kenneth E. (Spring 1993), Harvard Review , 4 (4): 213– 214, JSTOR 27559850 {{citation }}
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Enderton, H. B. (December 1993), The Journal of Symbolic Logic , 58 (4): 1465– 1466, doi :10.2307/2275157 , JSTOR 2275157 {{citation }}
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Steiner, George (December 20, 1993), "none", The New Yorker , p. 139
Dummett, Michael (January 6, 1994), "Blood and logic" , London Review of Books , 16 (1): 14– 15
Nunemacher, Jeffrey (1995), American Mathematical Monthly , 102 (2): 178– 179, doi :10.2307/2975364 , JSTOR 2975364 , MR 1542653 {{citation }}
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Murawski, Roman (1995), "Review" , Modern Logic , 5 (2): 211– 214
Enderton, H. B. (March 2002), Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , 8 (1): 104, doi :10.2178/bsl/1182353862 , JSTOR 2687744 , S2CID 122212683 {{citation }}
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Dawson, John W. (June 2003), The Mathematical Intelligencer , 25 (2): 78– 79, doi :10.1007/bf02984839 , S2CID 121524145 {{citation }}
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^ Reviews of Alfred Tarski :
Dauben, Joseph W. (2005), Mathematical Reviews , MR 2095748 {{citation }}
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Anellis, Irving H. (2005), "Review" , The Review of Modern Logic , 10 (1– 2): 117– 130
Davis, Philip J. (March 2005), "A life of logic and the illogic of life" , SIAM News
Davis, Martin (March–April 2005), "The Man Who Defined Truth", American Scientist , 93 (2): 175– 177, JSTOR 27858554
Shell-Gellasch, Amy (May 2005), "Review" , MAA Reviews
Misiuna, Krystyna (May 2005), History and Philosophy of Logic , 26 (2): 166– 168, doi :10.1080/01445340412331313602 , S2CID 216590845 {{citation }}
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Mendelson, Elliott (June 2005), Philosophia Mathematica , 13 (2): 231– 232, doi :10.1093/philmat/nki020 {{citation }}
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Kilmister, C. W. (July 2005), The Mathematical Gazette , 89 (515): 330– 331, doi :10.1017/S0025557200177988 , JSTOR 3621256 , S2CID 171454519 {{citation }}
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Schmit, Roger (Fall 2005), Archives de Philosophie , 68 (3): 546– 547, JSTOR 43038344 {{citation }}
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Maddux, Roger D. (December 2005), The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , 11 (4): 535– 540, doi :10.1017/S1079898600003000 , JSTOR 3396716 , S2CID 124002889 {{citation }}
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Kybernetes , 35 (1/2), January 2006, doi :10.1108/k.2006.06735aae.002 {{citation }}
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Lescanne, Pierre (March 2006), ACM SIGACT News , 37 (1): 27, doi :10.1145/1122480.1122489 , S2CID 9529607 {{citation }}
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Carnielli, Walter (March 2006), Logic and Logical Philosophy , 15 (1), doi :10.12775/llp.2006.005 {{citation }}
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Wood, Carol (April 2006), The American Mathematical Monthly , 113 (4): 377– 379, doi :10.2307/27641942 , JSTOR 27641942 {{citation }}
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Oberdan, Thomas (June 2006), Isis , 97 (2): 362– 363, doi :10.1086/507375 , JSTOR 10.1086/507375 {{citation }}
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Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (September 2006), The British Journal for the History of Science , 39 (3): 469– 470, doi :10.1017/S0007087406438681 , JSTOR 4028507 {{citation }}
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Apt, Krzysztof (March 2007), "Alfred Tarski: life and logic", The Mathematical Intelligencer , 29 (2): 78– 80, doi :10.1007/bf02986214 , S2CID 189883846
Sinaceur, Hourya Benis (September 2007), "Review" (PDF) , Notices of the American Mathematical Society , 54 (8): 986– 989
Bassols, Alejandro Tomasini (April 2006), Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía , 38 (112): 105– 111, JSTOR 40104969 {{citation }}
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Brown, Scott H. (March 2009), The Mathematics Teacher , 102 (7): 558, JSTOR 20876430 {{citation }}
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Bremer, Manuel (December 2009), "Review" , Philosophy in Review , 29 (6): 404
Nerode, Anil (March 2010), The American Mathematical Monthly , 117 (3): 286– 288, doi :10.4169/000298910x480144 , JSTOR 10.4169/000298910x480144 , S2CID 218549336 {{citation }}
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Czernecka-Rej, Bożena (2011), Roczniki Filozoficzne , 59 (1): 79– 84, JSTOR 43408916 {{citation }}
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