Herbert Bruce Enderton (April 15, 1936 – October 20, 2010) was an American mathematician. He was a

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and a former member of the faculties of Mathematics and of Logic and the Methodology of Science at the

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. Enderton also contributed to

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, the theory of definability, models of analysis,

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, and the

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. He earned his Ph.D. at

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in 1962. He was a member of the

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from 1961 until his death.

Personal life

He lived in

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. He married his wife, Cathy, in 1961 and they had two sons; Eric and Bert.

Later years

From 1980 to 2002 he was coordinating editor of the reviews section of the

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Journal of Symbolic Logic The '' Journal of Symbolic Logic'' is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published quarterly by Association for Symbolic Logic. It was established in 1936 and covers mathematical logic. The journal is indexed by ''Mathematical Reviews'', Zentralb ...

Death

He died from

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in 2010.

Selected publications

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References

External links

Herbert B. Enderton home page

Herbert Enderton UCLA lectures
on

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