Alexander Abian

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Alexander Abian (born January 1, 1923 as Smbat Abian in Tabriz , East Azerbaijan , † July 25, 1999 ) was an American mathematician of Iranian - Armenian descent with a professorship at Iowa State University . Abian is best known for his proposal to radically resolve the negative effects of the tides and catastrophic weather phenomena with an atomic destruction of the moon .

Abian studied at the University of Tehran with a bachelor's degree in 1946, at the University of Chicago with a master's degree in 1954 and received his Ph.D. 1956 at the University of Cincinnati with Isaac Barnett (Invariants and Covariants of Systems of Linear Differential and Integro-Differential Equations). 1956/57 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee , then Assistant Professor at Queens College , 1959 to 1962 at the University of Pennsylvania , 1962 to 1967 Associate Professor at Ohio State University and from 1967 to 1993 professor of mathematics at the Iowa State University.

As a mathematician, he dealt with algebra and axiomatic set theory, among other things, he proved the consistency and independence of four of the ZF axioms .

He made his suggestion to blow up the moon in 1991, shortly before his retirement, in a campus newsletter and was picked up by the press as a crazy idea from a scientist.

Fonts

  • The theory of sets and transfinite arithmetic , Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 1965
  • Linear associative algebras , New York: Pergamon, 1971, ISBN 0-08-016564-8
  • Boolean Rings , Branden Press, 1976

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dates of birth according to Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Goodnight, Moon. In: People Magazine (Archive). June 24, 1991, accessed August 6, 2011 .
  3. ^ Abian, On the Independence of Set Theoretical Axioms, Amer. Math. Monthly 76, 787-790, 1969
  4. ↑ Eric Weisstein: Zermelo-Fraenkel Axioms, Mathworld
  5. ↑ For example Judith Valente: Hate Winter? Here's A Scientist's Answer: Blow Up the Moon, The Wall Street Journal, April 22, 1991

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personal data
SURNAME Abian, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician of Iranian descent
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Tabriz , East Azerbaijan
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1999