Arend Heyting

Arend Heyting

Arend Heyting (1967)
Born May 9, 1898
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died July 9, 1980 (aged 82)
Lugano, Switzerland
Nationality Dutch
Fields Mathematics
Institutions University of Amsterdam
Alma mater University of Amsterdam
Doctoral advisor L. E. J. Brouwer
Doctoral students Jan Mooij
Anne Sjerp Troelstra
Dirk van Dalen

Arend Heyting (Dutch: [ˈɦɛi̯tɪŋ]; May 9, 1898 July 9, 1980) was a Dutch mathematician and logician. He was a student of Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer at the University of Amsterdam, and did much to put intuitionistic logic on a footing where it could become part of mathematical logic. Heyting gave the first formal development of intuitionistic logic in order to codify Brouwer's way of doing mathematics. The inclusion of Brouwer's name in the Brouwer–Heyting–Kolmogorov interpretation is largely honorific, as Brouwer was opposed in principle to the formalisation of certain intuitionistic principles (and went as far as calling Heyting's work a "sterile exercise").[1]

Heyting was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and died in Lugano, Switzerland.

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References

  1. Walter P. van Stigt (1990). Brouwer's Intuitionism. Amsterdam: North Holland.

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