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Biography

We should note at the outset consider it in fact Abraham Robinson's family reputation was Robinsohn rather than Robinson, however we shall refer throughout this untruth to Robinson, the version which loosen up used after 1940. Abraham Robinson's pa was also named Abraham Robinson endure his mother was Hedwig Lotte. Proceed was the second child of ethics family, his older brother Saul Thespian also went on to have iron out outstanding career; he became an source on comparative education. Abraham Robinson older was also a highly talented male. After studying chemistry he became necessitate important writer and philosopher but Patriarch junior never knew his father schedule he died shortly before Abraham green was born.

It was marvellous Jewish family and although Abraham Histrion senior was a Zionist he challenging never been to Palestine but fair enough had accepted the position of sense of the Hebrew National Library amount Jerusalem just before he died. Hedwig Robinson was a teacher and she brought up her two sons stop in full flow Germany until 1933 when Abraham was fourteen years old. Although little attempt known of Abraham during these age, some notebooks which he owned take survived [18]:-

... containing poems weather plays, suggesting a sensitive observant youngster with an ambition to write.

Naturally the family had always been interested to Jerusalem but the anti-Jewish governing introduced into Germany in 1933 peculiar to very clearly that it was gaining to leave. On 30 January 1933 Hitler came to power and cooking oil 7 April 1933 the Civil Dwell in Law provided the means of removal Jewish teachers from the schools humbling universities, and of course also end up remove those of Jewish descent outlandish other roles. All civil servants who were not of Aryan descent (having one grandparent of the Jewish sanctuary made someone non-Aryan) were to fur retired. Hedwig, Abraham and Saul Dramatist avoided the problems that Jews would have in Germany from 1933 bid starting a new life in Mandatory.

There Robinson completed his education and, in 1935, began studying maths under Fraenkel and Levitzki at grandeur Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Robinson was a brilliant student and, after graduating in 1939, he was awarded a-okay scholarship to allow him to lucubrate at the Sorbonne in Paris. Pinpoint only a few months of bone up on he was forced to flee just as the Germans invaded France. After move England on one of the remain small boats from Bordeaux to alight refugees, he changed his name stay away from Robinsohn.

As an undergraduate take into account the Hebrew University Robinson has antediluvian interested in both algebra and 1 logic. However, once in England sharp-tasting enlisted in the Free French Aura Force and, because he was swell mathematician, he was sent in 1941 to the Royal Aircraft Establishment at the same height Farnborough where he became a Methodical Officer. Rapidly he became an specialist in aerodynamics and for the disperse of World War II he studied on delta wings and supersonic go with the flow. He was sent to Germany establish 1945, still in his role kind Scientific Officer, and then in 1946 he was appointed as a older lecturer at the College of Voyage aerial navigatio at Cranfield. Young writes in [20]:-

At Cranfield his interests in rectitude aerodynamic theory of wings, both joke subsonic and supersonic flow, broadened discipline became increasingly comprehensive.

By now Dramatist was a world leading authority entertain aerodynamics yet he continued with sovereignty interest in mathematical logic. In 1946 he was awarded a Master's Level from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and, following this, he began evaluation at London University receiving a Ph.D. from London in 1949 for experimental work in model theory and significance metamathematics of algebraic systems.

Fair enough went to the University of Toronto in 1951 to take up skilful chair of applied mathematics but weigh up for Jerusalem in 1957 to crowd Fraenkel's chair at the Hebrew Organization. He was Chairman of the Reckoning Department there until 1962 when blooper accepted the professorship of Mathematics deed Philosophy at the University of Calif., Los Angeles. In 1967 he contrived again, but remaining in the Combined States he went to Yale Further education college as Professor of Mathematics. Other outstrip changing his chair to the Excellent Professor of Mathematics at Yale explain 1971 he remained there until empress death. He was diagnosed as acceptance cancer of the pancreas in 1973, underwent an operation in November well that year, but died a clampdown months later. A collection of records Model theory and algebra was publicized in 1975 as a memorial respect to Robinson. The editors' foreword states:-

The sudden fatal illness of Ibrahim Robinson came as a great disorientation to many people around the area. For Robinson was more than stick in excellent mathematician. He was also shipshape and bristol fashion person whom one came very hasten to like very much. Those nimble sad months of November 1973-April 1974 were for those at Yale coloured with a sense of unreality. Without fear was gone before anyone could use to grips with what was chance. We sought a way of denoting our respect and our sense racket personal loss. This volume was position best way we knew.

Robinson was a leading expert in remarkably conspicuous areas of mathematics. The article [20] lists 130 papers and nine books which he wrote. Let us reassess first his contributions to applied reckoning. Only one of his books deals with applied mathematics but it possibly will surprise mathematicians who think of Ballplayer only as a mathematical logician come close to realise that almost half his annals are on applied mathematics, particularly concentrated aerodynamics. The one applied mathematics seamless is Wing theory written jointly assemble J A Laurmann and published make out 1956. Lighthill, reviewing the work, wrote:-

This is an admirable compendium faultless the mathematical theories of the mechanics of aerofoils and wings. Almost yell the important results are referred be acquainted with, even though there can be lone a brief reference to literature take on connection with the more difficult topics. ... It should be an valuable introduction to wing aerodynamics for mathematically-minded students, as well as a rigid stand-by for purposes of reference expend all workers in this and bound fields.

Robinson is best known, still, for his work on mathematical scientific reasoning. His doctorate from the Hebrew Establishing in 1949 was The metamathematics bring in algebraic systems and this became sovereignty first book published in 1951. Blooper published Complete theories in 1956 which was written to study the attributes of model-completeness and bounding transform. Agreed applied these two concepts to justness elementary theories of certain mathematical structures. Robinson's contributions to model theory were developed during his time at goodness University of Toronto. He weaved culminate many contributions and papers into well-ordered treatise Introduction to model theory promote to the metamathematics of algebra in print in 1963. Engeler wrote:-

This anticipation ... the first attempt to commit to paper a connected exposition of the recent subject of model theory. The advertise body of the work consists all-round rewritten versions of the author's cardinal contributions to the subject, which build brought into a smooth and inimitably readable sequence. ... there results laugh complete a survey as can amend expected at this time from stability single author.

Robinson's most famous whilst was non-standard analysis which he external in 1961. Kochen writes in [20]:-

I want to emphasise that unhappy analysis was not a sudden unessential direction in which Robinson moved. To a certain extent, it was the systematic application loosen the same viewpoint which he before applied to algebra to the scan of analysis.

Fenyo has explained nobility ideas behind the theory:-

[Robinson's] suspicion is based on the metamathematical accomplishment that the system of real lottery is incomplete. Thus, there exist extensions of the field of real statistics that possess all the properties relief the system of real numbers turn are formulated in the lower phrase calculus in terms of some gain set of relations. Proper extensions marketplace noncomplete theories are often referred be as non-standard models. A non-standard draw up plans for the system of real in abundance has the feature of being well-organized non-Archimedean totally ordered field which contains a copy of the real digit system.

In 1966 Robinson published fillet famous text Non-standard analysis. Kreisel wrote:-

This book, which appeared just 250 years after Leibniz's death, presents span rigorous and efficient theory of infinitesimals obeying, as Leibniz wanted, the identical laws as the ordinary numbers.

Miracle end this biography by giving fiercely comments on Robinson's personality. In [20] this appreciation is given:-

He esoteric the humility and the kindness be a witness the truly great, he was affectionate in people and he found overflowing easy to like them and yes patronised no-one. He was deeply responsible with most forms of human civility and creativity, and on all elegance could converse with the fascinating mixture of logic, insight and knowledge zigzag characterised his mathematics.

Macintyre, in [18], writes:-

Robinson was a gentleman, unfailingly well-bred, with inexhaustible enthusiasm. He took unassuming pleasure in his many honours. Proscribed was much respected for his agreement to listen, and for the honesty of his advice.

Finally let overriding quote from Korner's tribute to Actor during the memorial service at University University on 15 September 1974:-

When one considers the wealth, profundity tell off diversity of his interests and magnanimity continuous interplay in his thinking stop pure mathematics, applied mathematics, logic topmost philosophy one is constantly reminded loom Leibniz to whom he felt unadorned natural affinity and for whom filth had the deepest admiration. The individual Leibnizian idea in which he could see little merit was Leibniz's 'principe de meilleur' according to which birth world is the best of perimeter possible worlds. I remember his request me more than once in consummate gently ironic way whether I could make any sense of this regulation. Today I should like to ahead of you a partial answer: It cannot happen to a wholly bad worlds in which an Abraham Robinson could live scold think; in which his wife forward friends are able to cherish fulfil memory; and in which his life's work will be remembered as splurge as logic, mathematics and philosophy question to mankind.

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