Mojzesz Presburger
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Mojżesz Presburger was a Polish
Jewish mathematician
, logician, and philosopher. He was a student of Alfred Tarski
and is known for, among other things, having invented Presburger arithmetic
as a student in 1929.
He was born in 1904 and died in a concentration camp.
In 2010, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science began conferring the annual Presburger Award
(named after Mojżesz Presburger) to a young scientist (in exceptional cases to several young scientists) for outstanding contributions in theoretical computer science. Mikołaj Bojańczyk was the first recipient.
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
Jewish mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
, logician, and philosopher. He was a student of Alfred Tarski
Alfred Tarski
Alfred Tarski was a Polish logician and mathematician. Educated at the University of Warsaw and a member of the Lwow-Warsaw School of Logic and the Warsaw School of Mathematics and philosophy, he emigrated to the USA in 1939, and taught and carried out research in mathematics at the University of...
and is known for, among other things, having invented Presburger arithmetic
Presburger arithmetic
Presburger arithmetic is the first-order theory of the natural numbers with addition, named in honor of Mojżesz Presburger, who introduced it in 1929. The signature of Presburger arithmetic contains only the addition operation and equality, omitting the multiplication operation entirely...
as a student in 1929.
He was born in 1904 and died in a concentration camp.
In 2010, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science began conferring the annual Presburger Award
Presburger Award
The Presburger Award, started in 2010, is awarded each year by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science to "a young scientist for outstanding contributions in theoretical computer science, documented by a published paper or a series of published papers"...
(named after Mojżesz Presburger) to a young scientist (in exceptional cases to several young scientists) for outstanding contributions in theoretical computer science. Mikołaj Bojańczyk was the first recipient.
External links
- Mojżesz Presburger's Photograph and document of death
- Documents about Presburger and a Flash presentation by Mikołaj Bojańczyk
- Presburger award, European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.
