Hajnal Ilona Andréka (also known as Hajnalka Andréka, born November 17, 1947) is a
Hungarian mathematician specializing in
algebraic logic
In mathematical logic, algebraic logic is the reasoning obtained by manipulating equations with Free variables and bound variables, free variables.
What is now usually called classical algebraic logic focuses on the identification and algebraic de ...
. She is a research professor emeritus at the
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Education and career
Andréka was born on November 17, 1947, in
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...
. She earned a diploma in mathematics in 1971 from
Eötvös Loránd University, completed a Ph.D. there in 1975, and earned a
candidate's degree in 1978. In 1992, she earned a
Dr. rer. nat. degree from the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
She worked in the Hungarian Ministry of Heavy Industries from 1971 to 1977, and has been affiliated with the
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 1977.
Books
Andréka's books include:
*''Cylindric Set Algebras'' (with
Leon Henkin
Leon Albert Henkin (April 19, 1921, Brooklyn, New York – November 1, 2006, Oakland, California) was an American logician, whose works played a strong role in the development of logic, particularly in the Type theory, theory of types. He was an ...
, Donald Monk,
Alfred Tarski
Alfred Tarski (; ; born Alfred Teitelbaum;School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews ''School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews''. January 14, 1901 – October 26, 1983) was a Polish-American logician ...
, and István Németi, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 883, Springer, 1981, )
*''Universal Algebraic Logic: Dedicated to the Unity of Science'' (with István Németi and Ildikó Sain, Studies in universal logic, Birkhäuser, 2008)
*''Cylindric-like Algebras and Algebraic Logic'' (edited with Miklós Ferenczi and István Németi, Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies 22, Springer, 2013, )
*''Simple Relation Algebras'' (with Steven Givant, Springer, 2017, )
Recognition
Andréka won the
Géza Grünwald Commemorative Prize for young researchers of the
János Bolyai Mathematical Society in 1975, and the
Gyula Farkas Prize in applied mathematics of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society in 1978. In 1979, the
John von Neumann Computer Society gave her their
László Kalmár Prize, and in 1987, the
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics gave her their
Alfréd Rényi Prize.
References
External links
Home page*
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1947 births
Living people
20th-century Hungarian mathematicians
21st-century Hungarian mathematicians
Hungarian women mathematicians
Mathematical logicians
Women logicians
Eötvös Loránd University alumni