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With his Jewish family, Bernstein immigrated as a child to the United States. After completing public primary education in 1897 in Baltimore, he completed in 1902 his secondary education at
Baltimore City College
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, and then received in 1905 his A.B. degree from Johns Hopkins University. After completing two years of graduate study at Johns Hopkins University, he became in 1907 an instructor and continuing graduate student in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. There he received in 1913, with supervisor
Mellen W. Haskell
Mellen Woodman Haskell (March 17, 1863 – January 15, 1948) was an American mathematician, specializing in geometry, group theory, and applications of group theory to geometry.
Education and career
After secondary education at Roxbury Latin Scho ...
, his Ph.D. At Berkeley, Bernstein became in 1918 an assistant professor, in 1923 an associate professor, and in 1928 a full professor of mathematics, retiring in 1951 as professor emeritus.
He was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1924 in Toronto. He was elected in 1931 a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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J.C.C. McKinsey
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Selected publications
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A. O. Leuschner
Armin Otto Leuschner (January 16, 1868 – April 22, 1953) was an American astronomer and educator.
Biography
Leuschner was born on January 16, 1868, in the United States but raised in Germany. He returned to the United States for universi ...
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** Errata for 1924 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. vol. 26, pages 171–175: published Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 27 (1925) 600.
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* "On the Serial Relations in Boolean Algebras" ''Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society'' 32(5) 523,4 1926
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Alfred L. Foster
Alfred Leon Foster (1904-1994) was an American mathematician. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1934 until 1971. In 1932 he was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in Zürich.
In 1934 he accepted a regular position at ...