James Earl Baumgartner
Mathematician, Academic
1943 – 2011
Who was James Earl Baumgartner?
James Earl Baumgartner was an American mathematician who worked in set theory, mathematical logic and foundations, and topology.
Baumgartner was born in Wichita, Kansas, began his undergraduate study at the California Institute of Technology in 1960, then transferred to the University of California, Berkeley, from which he received his PhD in 1970 from for a dissertation entitled Results and Independence Proofs in Combinatorial Set Theory. His advisor was Robert Vaught. He became a professor at Dartmouth College in 1969, and there spent his entire career.
One of Baumgartner's results is the consistency of the statement that any two -dense sets of reals are order isomorphic. With András Hajnal he proved the result that the partition relation holds for . He died of a heart attack in 2011.
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- Born
- Mar 23, 1943
Wichita - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- Employment
- Dartmouth College
- Died
- Dec 28, 2011
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on July 23, 2013
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