Warren Goldfarb

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Warren D. Goldfarb is a mathematician with a specialization in logic, most noted for his work on the classical decision problem, and in particular his book on the subject, The decision problem: Solvable classes of quantificational formulas, with Burton Dreben. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. As of 2008, he is a member of the Department of Philosophy at Harvard, where he is the Walter Beverly Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Logic. He has been on the Harvard faculty since 1975, and was tenured in 1982, the only philosopher to win tenure at Harvard over a 37-year stretch from 1962 to 1999.[1]

Prof. Goldfarb is also one of the founders of the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus and was one of the first openly gay Harvard faculty members.[2][3]

Goldfarb was an editor of volumes III–V of Kurt Gödel's Collected Works.

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  1. ^ Harvard Tenures First Philosopher in 17 Years, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 7, 1999.
  2. ^ Who's Who: About Us, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus.
  3. ^ Gay Faculty Become Activists, Melissa Lee and Anna D. Wilde, Harvard Crimson, April 23, 1993.

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