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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 .
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[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.
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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
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Zach, Richard (April 22, 2015),
Anita Burdman Feferman, 1927-2015
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"Feferman, Anita Burdman 1927-" , Encyclopedia.com , Cengage, retrieved 2019-10-05
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"Anita Burdman Feferman, July 27, 1927–April 9, 2015, Stanford, California" , Palo Alto Express
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Schmit, Roger (Fall 2005), Archives de Philosophie , 68 (3): 546–547,
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Maddux, Roger D. (December 2005), The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , 11 (4): 535–540,
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Wood, Carol (April 2006), The American Mathematical Monthly , 113 (4): 377–379,
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Oberdan, Thomas (June 2006), Isis , 97 (2): 362–363,
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Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (September 2006), The British Journal for the History of Science , 39 (3): 469–470,
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Apt, Krzysztof (March 2007), "Alfred Tarski: life and logic", The Mathematical Intelligencer , 29 (2): 78–80,
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"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,
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Brown, Scott H. (March 2009), The Mathematics Teacher , 102 (7): 558,
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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 :
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Czernecka-Rej, Bożena (2011), Roczniki Filozoficzne , 59 (1): 79–84,
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