Jean Van Heijenoort Papers, 1946-1988

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Jean Van Heijenoort Papers, 1946-1988

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00245/00245-P.html

Collection documents thecareer of Jean van Heijenoort (1912-1986) in mathematical logic and itshistory.

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Archives of American Mathematics, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

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Van Heijenoort, Jean, 1912-1986

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Jean van Heijenoort was born in Creil, France, on July 13, 1912. He was educated at the Lycée St. Louis in Paris. From 1932 to 1939, he served as Leon Trotsky's personal secretary. Van Heijenoort left Trotsky in 1939 and came to the United States, where his interests turned to mathematical logic. He received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1949, and taught in the New York University Mathematics Department until 1965, when he moved to the Department of Philosophy and the Histor...