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of Harvard, Professor Bernstein was a pioneer in this field from the mathematical point of view. ... During this early period in the history of mathematical logic, a notable event for the subject was the publication of
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When Professor Bernstein began his studies in mathematics, the subject of algebra of logic, or mathematical logic, was just beginning to receive intensive scholarly study, mainly from philosophers. Along with
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With his Jewish family, Bernstein immigrated as a child to the United States. After completing public primary education in 1897 in Baltimore, he completed in 1902 his secondary education at
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Errata for 1924 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. vol. 26, pages 171–175: published Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1925) 600.
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Bernstein, B. A. (1936). "Postulates for Boolean algebra involving the operation of complete disjunction".
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In June 1920 in New York City, Professor Bernstein married Rose Davidson; her brother was the sculptor
1117: 1112: 123: 31: 831: 823: 790: 331: 35: 885:"Symmetric Approach to Commutative Rings with Duality Theorem: Boolean Duality as Special Case" 1007: 565:"Relation of Whitehead and Russell's theory of deduction to the Boolean logic of propositions" 59: 956: 921: 896: 856: 815: 782: 751: 716: 681: 646: 611: 576: 541: 506: 470: 435: 391: 356: 323: 281: 246: 211: 176: 141: 83: 935: 870: 765: 730: 695: 660: 625: 590: 555: 520: 484: 449: 405: 370: 306: 295: 260: 225: 190: 155: 1097: 1052: 931: 866: 761: 726: 691: 656: 621: 586: 551: 516: 480: 445: 401: 366: 303: 291: 256: 221: 186: 151: 103: 670:"Simplification of the set of four postulates for Boolean algebras in terms of rejection" 235:"The complete existential theory of Hurwitz's postulates for abelian groups and fields" 926: 909: 861: 844: 756: 740:"A set of four postulates for Boolean algebra in terms of the "implicative" operation" 739: 495:"A practical method for the modular representation of finite operations and relations" 459:"Application of Boolean algebra to proving consistency and independence of postulates" 396: 379: 361: 344: 286: 269: 216: 199: 1106: 1098:
Guide to the Benjamin Abram Bernstein papers, 1901–1963, Online Archive of California
165:"A simplification of the Whitehead-Huntington set of postulates for boolean algebras" 835: 721: 704: 686: 669: 651: 634: 616: 599: 581: 564: 546: 529: 511: 494: 475: 458: 440: 423: 251: 181: 164: 146: 129: 960: 900: 1001: 845:"Postulates for abelian groups and fields in terms of non-associative operations" 270:"Operations with respect to which the elements of a Boolean algebra form a group" 110: 1029: 27: 989:
Benjamin Abram Bernstein, University of California: In Memoriam, April 1965
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University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
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Bernstein, B. A. (1924). "Representation of three-element algebras".
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Bernstein, B. A. (December 1937). "Remarks on Nicod's reduction of
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Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
600:"On unit-zero Boolean representations of operations and relations" 635:"Remarks on Propositions *1.1 and *3.35 of Principia Mathematica" 1083:
Robert Levit Obituary, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2010
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in 1924 in Toronto. He was elected in 1931 a fellow of the
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In Proc. 7th Int. Cong. Math, vol. 1, pp. 207-216. 1924.
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Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
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Foster, Alfred L.; Bernstein, B. A. (September 1944).
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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New York: Philosophical Library. 910:"Postulate-sets for Boolean rings" 56:University of California, Berkeley 14: 927:10.1090/s0002-9947-1944-0009944-6 862:10.1090/s0002-9947-1938-1501932-0 757:10.1090/s0002-9947-1934-1501773-0 397:10.1090/s0002-9947-1926-1501369-6 362:10.1090/s0002-9947-1926-1501359-3 287:10.1090/s0002-9947-1924-1501271-8 217:10.1090/s0002-9947-1916-1501029-5 94:He was an Invited Speaker at the 90:and discussed it in many papers. 1138:Johns Hopkins University alumni 722:10.1090/s0002-9904-1933-05740-3 687:10.1090/s0002-9904-1933-05738-5 652:10.1090/s0002-9904-1933-05576-3 617:10.1090/s0002-9904-1932-05507-0 582:10.1090/s0002-9904-1932-05464-7 547:10.1090/s0002-9904-1932-05400-3 512:10.1090/s0002-9904-1932-05338-1 476:10.1090/s0002-9904-1931-05242-3 441:10.1090/s0002-9904-1931-05191-0 316:American Journal of Mathematics 252:10.1090/s0002-9904-1922-03600-2 182:10.1090/s0002-9904-1916-02831-x 147:10.1090/s0002-9904-1912-02211-5 1: 1133:Baltimore City College alumni 1034:Mathematics Genealogy Project 961:10.1215/s0012-7094-47-01439-7 945:"Weak definitions of a field" 901:10.1215/s0012-7094-44-01153-1 1000:Runes, Dagobert D. (1951). 1179: 949:Duke Mathematical Journal 943:Bernstein, B. A. (1947). 908:Bernstein, B. A. (1944). 889:Duke Mathematical Journal 843:Bernstein, B. A. (1938). 808:Journal of Symbolic Logic 738:Bernstein, B. A. (1934). 703:Bernstein, B. A. (1933). 668:Bernstein, B. A. (1933). 633:Bernstein, B. A. (1933). 598:Bernstein, B. A. (1932). 563:Bernstein, B. A. (1932). 528:Bernstein, B. A. (1932). 457:Bernstein, B. A. (1931). 422:Bernstein, B. A. (1931). 378:Bernstein, B. A. (1926). 343:Bernstein, B. A. (1926). 268:Bernstein, B. A. (1924). 233:Bernstein, B. A. (1922). 198:Bernstein, B. A. (1916). 163:Bernstein, B. A. (1916). 1030:Benjamin Abram Bernstein 52:Johns Hopkins University 20:Benjamin Abram Bernstein 1123:Mathematical logicians 914:Trans. Amer. Math. Soc 849:Trans. Amer. Math. Soc 744:Trans. Amer. Math. Soc 384:Trans. Amer. Math. Soc 349:Trans. Amer. Math. Soc 274:Trans. Amer. Math. Soc 204:Trans. Amer. Math. 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Pasvalys
Lithuania
Berkeley, California
mathematical logic
Baltimore City College
Johns Hopkins University
University of California, Berkeley
Mellen W. Haskell
E. V. Huntington
Principia Mathematica
Whitehead
Russell
ICM
American Association for the Advancement of Science
J.C.C. McKinsey
Jo Davidson
A. O. Leuschner
"Note on the graphical solutions of the fundamental equations in the short methods of determining orbits"
doi
10.1090/s0002-9904-1912-02211-5
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1559207
"A simplification of the Whitehead-Huntington set of postulates for boolean algebras"
doi
10.1090/s0002-9904-1916-02831-x
MR
1559829
"A set of four independent postulates for Boolean algebras"
doi
10.1090/s0002-9947-1916-1501029-5

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