Bjarni Jónsson
For the artist, see Bjarni Jónsson (artist). For the Icelandic footballer, see Bjarni Jónsson (footballer).
This is an Icelandic name. The last name is a patronymic, not a family name; this person is properly referred to by the given name Bjarni.
| Bjarni Jónsson | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
15 February 1920 Draghals, Iceland |
| Nationality | Icelandic |
| Fields | Mathematics, logic |
| Institutions |
Brown University Vanderbilt University University of Minnesota, Minneapolis |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfred Tarski |
| Doctoral students |
Peter Fillmore Frederick Galvin |
Bjarni Jónsson (born February 15, 1920)[1] is an Icelandic mathematician and logician working in universal algebra and lattice theory. He is 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.[2]
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.[3]
Publications
- Jónsson, Bjarni (1972), Topics in universal algebra, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 250, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, doi:10.1007/BFb0058648, MR 0345895
References
- ↑ American Men & Women of Science - Volume 4. R.R. Bowker Company. Database Publishing Group. 2009. p. 148. ISBN 0787665274.
- ↑ Bjarni Jónsson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-26.
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