Karel Hrbáček
Karel Hrbáček (often Karel Hrbacek ; * 1944 ) is a Czech mathematician living in the United States who specializes in set theory and mathematical logic.
Hrbacek received his doctorate in 1966 under Petr Vopěnka at the Charles University in Prague . He is a professor at the City College of New York (CUNY).
Together with Thomas Jech, Hrbacek is the author of a standard work on axiomatic set theory. He gave an axiomatic approach to non-standard analysis and non-standard set theory, the Hrbacek set theory (HST, Hrbacek Set Theory).
In 1980 he received the Lester Randolph Ford Award for his article Nonstandard set theory .
He is a member of the American Mathematical Society , the Mathematical Association of America, and the Association for Symbolic Logic .
Fonts
- with Thomas Jech , Introduction to set theory , Marcel Dekker, 1978, 3rd edition 1999
Web links
- Literature by and about Karel Hrbáček in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 86, 1979, pp. 161-175
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hrbáček, Karel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hrbacek, Karel M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |