Anita Burdman Feferman

Anita Burdman Feferman (July 27, 1927 – April 9, 2015) was an American historian of mathematics and biographer, known for her biographies of Jean van Heijenoort and (with her husband, logician Solomon Feferman) of Alfred Tarski.[1][2]

Life

Feferman was born on July 27, 1927. She was originally from Los Angeles, and attended Hollywood High School and the University of California, Los Angeles before earning a bachelor's degree in 1948 from the University of California, Berkeley. She became a schoolteacher in the Oakland, California school system, and earned another degree in teaching from UC Berkeley. In 1956 her husband Solomon Feferman took a position at Stanford University, and she moved with him and their two daughters from the East Bay to the San Francisco Peninsula. She died on April 9, 2015.[3]

Books

At Stanford, Feferman became a member of a biography seminar led by Barbara A. Babcock and Diane Middlebrook.[3] Her first biography, of Jean van Heijenoort, was Politics, Logic, and Love: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort (Jones and Bartlett, 1993), also published as From Trotsky to Gödel: The Life of Jean van Heijenoort (CRC Press, 2001).[4] With Solomon Feferman, she was the co-author of a biography of Alfred Tarski, Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic (Cambridge University Press, 2004).[5]

References

1. Zach, Richard (April 22, 2015), Anita Burdman Feferman, 1927-2015
2. "Feferman, Anita Burdman 1927-", Encyclopedia.com, Cengage, retrieved 2019-10-05
3. "Anita Burdman Feferman, July 27, 1927–April 9, 2015, Stanford, California", Palo Alto Express
4. Reviews of The Life of Jean van Heijenoort:
   • Struik, D. J. (1993), Mathematical Reviews, MR 1193227CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Carpenter, Kenneth E. (Spring 1993), Harvard Review, 4 (4): 213–214, JSTOR 27559850CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Enderton, H. B. (December 1993), The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 58 (4): 1465–1466, doi:10.2307/2275157, JSTOR 2275157CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Steiner, George (December 20, 1993), The New Yorker: 139CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Dummett, Michael (January 6, 1994), "Blood and logic", London Review of Books, 16 (1): 14–15
   • Nunemacher, Jeffrey (1995), American Mathematical Monthly, 102 (2): 178–179, doi:10.2307/2975364, JSTOR 2975364, MR 1542653CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Murawski, Roman (1995), "Review", Modern Logic, 5 (2): 211–214
   • Enderton, H. B. (March 2002), Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 8 (1): 104, doi:10.2178/bsl/1182353862, JSTOR 2687744CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Dawson, John W. (June 2003), The Mathematical Intelligencer, 25 (2): 78–79, doi:10.1007/bf02984839, S2CID 121524145CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
5. Reviews of Alfred Tarski:
   • Dauben, Joseph W. (2005), Mathematical Reviews, MR 2095748CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Anellis, Irving H. (2005), "Review", The Review of Modern Logic, 10 (1–2): 117–130
   • Davis, Philip J. (March 2005), "A life of logic and the illogic of life", SIAM News
   • Davis, Martin (March–April 2005), "The Man Who Defined Truth", American Scientist, 93 (2): 175–177, JSTOR 27858554
   • Shell-Gellasch, Amy (May 2005), "Review", MAA Reviews
   • Misiuna, Krystyna (May 2005), History and Philosophy of Logic, 26 (2): 166–168, doi:10.1080/01445340412331313602, S2CID 216590845CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Mendelson, Elliott (June 2005), Philosophia Mathematica, 13 (2): 231–232, doi:10.1093/philmat/nki020CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Kilmister, C. W. (July 2005), The Mathematical Gazette, 89 (515): 330–331, doi:10.1017/S0025557200177988, JSTOR 3621256CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Schmit, Roger (Fall 2005), Archives de Philosophie, 68 (3): 546–547, JSTOR 43038344CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Maddux, Roger D. (December 2005), The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 11 (4): 535–540, doi:10.1017/S1079898600003000, JSTOR 3396716CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Kybernetes, 35 (1/2), January 2006, doi:10.1108/k.2006.06735aae.002CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Lescanne, Pierre (March 2006), ACM SIGACT News, 37 (1): 27, doi:10.1145/1122480.1122489, S2CID 9529607CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Carnielli, Walter (March 2006), Logic and Logical Philosophy, 15 (1), doi:10.12775/llp.2006.005CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Wood, Carol (April 2006), The American Mathematical Monthly, 113 (4): 377–379, doi:10.2307/27641942, JSTOR 27641942CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Oberdan, Thomas (June 2006), Isis, 97 (2): 362–363, doi:10.1086/507375, JSTOR 10.1086/507375CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (September 2006), The British Journal for the History of Science, 39 (3): 469–470, doi:10.1017/S0007087406438681, JSTOR 4028507CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Apt, Krzysztof R. (March 2007), "Alfred Tarski: life and logic", The Mathematical Intelligencer, 29 (2): 78–80, doi:10.1007/bf02986214, S2CID 189883846
   • Sinaceur, Hourya Benis (September 2007), "Review" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 54 (8): 986–989
   • Bassols, Alejandro Tomasini (April 2006), Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía, 38 (112): 105–111, JSTOR 40104969CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Brown, Scott H. (March 2009), The Mathematics Teacher, 102 (7): 558, JSTOR 20876430CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Bremer, Manuel (December 2009), "Review", Philosophy in Review, 29 (6): 404
   • Nerode, Anil (March 2010), The American Mathematical Monthly, 117 (3): 286–288, doi:10.4169/000298910x480144, JSTOR 10.4169/000298910x480144, S2CID 218549336CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Czernecka-Rej, Bożena (2011), Roczniki Filozoficzne, 59 (1): 79–84, JSTOR 43408916CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

External links

• Feferman (Anita Burdman) Papers, Stanford University Archives, via Online Archive of California