Abraham Fraenkel
Mathematician, Author
1891 – 1965
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Who was Abraham Fraenkel?
Abraham Halevi Fraenkel, known as Abraham Fraenkel, was an Israeli mathematician born in Germany. He was an early Zionist and the first Dean of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known for his contributions to axiomatic set theory, especially his addition to Ernst Zermelo's axioms which resulted in Zermelo–Fraenkel axioms.
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- Born
- Feb 17, 1891
Munich - Also known as
- Abraham Adolf Fraenkel
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Germans
- Nationality
- Israel
- Profession
- Education
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Lived in
- Munich
- Died
- Oct 15, 1965
Jerusalem
Submitted
on July 23, 2013