Isaac Richard Jay Malitz (born 1947, in
Cleveland
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,
Ohio
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) is a
logic
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ian who introduced the subject of
positive set theory
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in his 1976
Ph.D.
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Thesis at
UCLA
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.
References
Isaac (Richard) Jay Malitz– entry in the Mathematics Genealogy Project
1947 births
Living people
American logicians
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Scientists from Cleveland
Date of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American mathematicians
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