Nationality Icelandic Fields Mathematics, Logic Doctoral advisor Alfred Tarski | Role Mathematician Name Bjarni Jonsson | |
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Born 15 February 1920 (age 104)
Draghals, Iceland ( 1920-02-15 ) Institutions Brown University
Vanderbilt University
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Alma mater University of California, Berkeley Education University of California, Berkeley Books Direct Decompositions of Finite Algebraic Systems, Topics in universal algebra, Analytic Geometry and Calculus Doctoral students Peter A. Fill, Fred Galvin | ||
Bjarni jonsson lecture 1 1 an algebraic perspective
Bjarni Jónsson (February 15, 1920 – September 30, 2016) was an Icelandic mathematician and logician working in universal algebra and lattice theory. He was emeritus Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Vanderbilt University and the honorary editor in chief of Algebra Universalis. He received his PhD in 1946 at UC Berkeley under supervision of Alfred Tarski.
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Several mathematical objects are named for him, among them Jónsson algebras, ω-Jónsson functions, Jónsson cardinals, Jónsson terms, Jónsson–Tarski algebras and Jónsson–Tarski duality.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Bjarni jonsson lecture 1 2 an algebraic perspective
Publications
Norska raforkukerfi vs hi i slenska bjarni jo nsson
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