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Jean van Heijenoort (Jean Louis Maxime van Heijenoort) was born on 23 July, 1912 in Creil, France, is an An american historian of mathematics. Discover Jean van Heijenoort's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

Popular As Jean Louis Maxime van Heijenoort
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Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 23 July 1912
Birthday 23 July
Birthplace Creil, France
Date of death 1986
Died Place Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality France

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1879

It begins with the first complete translation of Frege's 1879 Begriffsschrift, followed by 45 short pieces on mathematical logic and axiomatic set theory, originally published between 1889 and 1931.

The anthology ends with Gödel's landmark paper on the incompleteness of Peano arithmetic.

1912

Jean Louis Maxime van Heijenoort (July 23, 1912 – March 29, 1986) was a historian of mathematical logic.

1915

From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic underrated the algebraic logic of De Morgan, Boole, Peirce, and Schröder, but devoted more pages to Skolem than to anyone other than Frege, and included Löwenheim (1915), the founding paper on model theory.

Van Heijenoort had children with two of his four wives.

1932

He was also a personal secretary to Leon Trotsky from 1932 to 1939, and an American Trotskyist until 1947.

Jean van Heijenoort, a renowned mathematician and logician, was born in Creil, France.

His parents had immigrated from the Netherlands before his birth.

Unfortunately, when van Heijenoort was only two years old, his father passed away, leaving his family in financial hardship.

Despite these challenges, he pursued his education and became proficient in French.

In 1932, Van Heijenoort was recruited by Yvan Craipeau to join the Trotskyist movement.

He joined the Communist League in the same year.

After Trotsky was exiled, he hired van Heijenoort as a secretary and bodyguard, primarily because of his fluency in French, Russian, German, and English.

Van Heijenoort spent seven years in Trotsky's household, during which he served as a translator, helped Trotsky write several books and carried on an extensive intellectual and political correspondence in several languages.

1939

In 1939, van Heijenoort moved to New York City to be with his second wife, Beatrice "Bunny" Guyer.

1940

He was not involved in the circumstances leading to Trotsky's murder in 1940.

In New York, he worked for the Socialist Workers Party (US) (SWP) and wrote a number of articles for the American Trotskyist press and other radical outlets.

He was elected to the secretariat of the Fourth International in 1940 but resigned when Felix Morrow and Albert Goldman, with whom he had sided, were expelled from the SWP.

1947

(Goldman subsequently joined the US Workers Party while Morrow did not join any other party or grouping.) In 1947, Van Heijenoort too was expelled from the SWP.

1948

In 1948, he published an article, entitled "A Century's Balance Sheet", in which he criticized that part of Marxism which saw the "proletariat" as the revolutionary class.

He continued to hold other parts of Marxism as true.

Van Heijenoort was spared the ordeal of McCarthyism as everything he published in Trotskyist publications appeared under one of over a dozen pen names he used.

1949

After completing a Ph.D. in mathematics at New York University in 1949 under the supervision of J. J. Stoker, Van Heijenoort began to teach mathematics at New York University, but moved to logic and philosophy of mathematics, largely under the influence of Georg Kreisel.

1958

Throughout his life, he maintained strong connections with his extended family and friends in France, making biannual visits after he obtained American citizenship in 1958.

1964

Nearly all the content of From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic had only been available in a few North American university libraries (e.g., even the Library of Congress did not acquire a copy of the Begriffsschrift until 1964), and all but four pieces had to be translated from one of six continental European languages.

When possible, the authors of the original texts reviewed the translations, and suggested corrections and amendments.

Each piece was supplied with editorial footnotes and an introduction (mostly by Van Heijenoort but some by Willard Quine and Burton Dreben); its references were combined into a comprehensive bibliography, and misprints, inconsistencies, and errors were corrected.

From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic contributed to advancing the view that modern logic begins with, and builds on, the Begriffsschrift.

1965

He started teaching philosophy, first part-time at Columbia University, then full-time at Brandeis University from 1965 to 1977.

He spent much of his last decade at Stanford University, writing and editing eight books, including parts of the Collected Works of Kurt Gödel.

1967

From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic (van Heijenoort 1967) is an anthology of translations on the history of logic and the foundations of mathematics.

Ironically, van Heijenoort (1967) is often cited by those who prefer the alternative model theoretic stance on logic and mathematics.

1978

Nevertheless, he contributed to the Trotskyist movement until the last decade of his life, when he wrote his monograph With Trotsky in Exile (1978), and an edition of Trotsky's correspondence (1980).

He advised and collaborated with the archivists at the Houghton Library in Harvard University, which holds many of Trotsky's papers from his years in exile.

1986

Tragically, van Heijenoort met an untimely end in 1986 in Mexico City at the hands of his fourth spouse.

However, his intellectual contributions and the impact he made in the fields of mathematics and logic continue to be recognized and valued.

1993

According to Feferman (1993), Van Heijenoort the logician was quite reserved about his Trotskyist youth, and did not discuss politics.

2000

For more information on the period covered by this anthology, see Grattan-Guinness (2000).

Grattan-Guinness (2000) argues that this perspective on the history of logic is mistaken, because Frege employed an idiosyncratic notation and was significantly less read than Peano.

Much of the history of that stance, whose leading lights include George Boole, Charles Sanders Peirce, Ernst Schröder, Leopold Löwenheim, Thoralf Skolem, Alfred Tarski, and Jaakko Hintikka, is covered in Brady (2000).