Solomon Feferman

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Solomon Feferman is an American philosopher and mathematician with works in mathematical logic. He was born in New York City, New York, and received his Ph.D. in 1957 from the University of California, Berkeley under Alfred Tarski. He is a Stanford University professor.

Feferman was awarded the Schock Prize in logic and philosophy in 2003 and delivered the Tarski Lectures in 2006. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Feferman was the editor-in-chief of the Collected Works of Kurt Gödel.

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Dec 13, 1928
New York City

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Bachelor of Science, California Institute of Technology
Mathematics
( - 1948)
Doctorate, University of California, Berkeley
Mathematics
(Specialized in Mathematical logic)
( - 1957)

Employment

Stanford University
Instructor of Mathematics and Philosophy, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences
(1956 - 1958)
Assistant of Mathematics and Philosophy, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences
(1958 - 1962)
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study
(1959 - 1960)
SRI International
(1958 - 1963)
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences
(1962 - 1968)
NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Paris
(1964 - 1965)
Visiting Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1967 - 1968)
Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences
(1968 - 2003)
University of Oxford
(1972 - 1973)

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