Dirk van Dalen (born 20 December 1932,
Amsterdam
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Van Dalen studied mathematics and physics and astronomy at the
University of Amsterdam
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and
Heyting
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Arend Heyting (; 9 May 1898 – 9 July 1980) was a Dutch mathematician and logician.
Biography
Heyting was a student of Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer at the University of Amsterdam, and did much to put intuitionistic logic on a foot ...
, he received his Ph.D. in 1963 from the University of Amsterdam for the thesis ''Extension problems in intuitionistic plane Projective geometry.'' From 1964 to 1966 Van Dalen taught
logic
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and mathematics at
MIT
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, and later
Oxford
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. From 1967 he was professor at the
University of Utrecht
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. In 2003 Dirk van Dalen was awarded the Academy Medal 2003 of the
Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
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for bringing the works of Brouwer to international attention.
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Works
* 1958: (with Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
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) ''Foundations of Set Theory'', North Holland Publishing
* 1963: Extension problems in intuitionistic plane projective geometry
* 1978: (with H.C. Doets and H. De Swart) ''Sets: Naive, Axiomatic and Applied'', Pergamon Press
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History
The cor ...
* 1980: ''Logic and Structure'', Springer Universitext
* 1981: (editor) ''Brouwer's Cambridge Lectures on Intuitionism'' Cambridge University Press
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* 1988:
* 2000: (with Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus
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) "Zermelo and the Skolem Paradox", Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 6(2)
* 2001: "Intuitionistic Logic", in: ''The Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic'', Lou Goble (editor), Blackwell
* 2013: ''L.E.J. Brouwer - Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher: How mathematics is rooted in life'', Springer-Verlag
References
* The article was originally created as a translation (Google) of the corresponding article in Dutch Wikipedia
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Further reading
* ''Dirk van Dalen Festschrift'', Henk Barendregt
Hendrik Pieter (Henk) Barendregt (born 18 December 1947, Amsterdam) is a Dutch logician, known for his work in lambda calculus and type theory.
Life and work
Barendregt studied mathematical logic at Utrecht University, obtaining his master's de ...
en anderen (redactie), University of Utrecht, Department of Philosophy, 1993
* ''Special issue: a tribute to Dirk van Dalen'', Yuri Gurevich
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(redactie), uitgeverij North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1995.
External links
Koninklijke bibliotheek
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1932 births
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