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Gabriel Stolzenberg
Birth Date:1937
Death Date:19 November 2019
Death Place:Watertown, Massachusetts
Citizenship:American
Alma Mater:Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Known For:Mathematics
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Gabriel Stolzenberg (Brooklyn, 1937 - Watertown, Massachusetts, 2019) was an American mathematician who taught at various academic institutions.

Early years and education

Stolzenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York to Aba Stolzenberg (1905-1966),[1] a Yiddish poet, and Bluma aka Florence Stolzenberg.[2] His father, Aba, and other Yiddish artists would often gather around poet Zishe Landau.[3] His elder sister, Ethel, participated in a social club created in 1938 by young Jewish girls in Crown Heights, called Faithful Friends Forever Club. She went on to receive a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Yale University, while, later, she and her husband, Irwin Tessman, were members of the biological sciences faculty at Purdue.[4]

Stolzenberg attended Stuyvesant High School and then, at the age of sixteen, went to Israel where he joined a kibbutz for one year.[5] Returning to the States, he entered Columbia University on a Ford Foundation scholarship to study Mathematics. He graduated in 1958 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961.

Teaching

Stolzewnberg was Benjamin Peirce Instructor at Harvard, and also taught at Brown and various northeastern institutions, such as Boston University, having also held visiting positions at Berkeley and in Paris. His research field included the theory of functions with several complex variables and Banach algebras. He published primarily in the Annals of Mathematics and the Acta Mathematica.[2]

Philosopher of science

Stolzenberg, influenced by the work of Errett Bishop, was a constructivist in the philosophy of mathematics, as well as in science education.[6] [7]

He was an active participant in the so-called "science wars",[8] [9] [10] defending post-modernism and constructivism against the positions held by scientists and philosophers, as well as against accusations of relativism.[11] [12] Solzenberg engaged publicly and for many years in a dialogue with opponents of the postmodernist approach to sciences and of the use of concepts of physics, mathematics, or chemistry in philosophy and the social sciences,[13] [14] attracting commentary across both positive and social sciences[15] and drawing wider attention to these issues.[16]

Selected works

Articles

Books

Private life

Stolzenberg married Judith Levine (b. 1938)[17] soon after graduating from Columbia in 1958.[5] He met his second wife, mathematician Nancy Kopell (b.1942), while they were both serving at the faculty of Boston University.[18] Stolzenberg and Levine had two children, Nomi and Daniel Stolzenberg.[5]

Nomi joined the USC Gould School of Law faculty in 1988, with her research focusing mainly on the relationship of law with religion, liberalism, psychoanalysis, and literature.[19] Daniel[20] went on to receive a PhD in History from Stanford and serve as a historian of knowledge in UC Davis, specializing in early modern Europe. In 2014, Daniel received the Howard R. Marraro Prize for the best book on Italian History published that year. He mainly researches the history of science and scholarship from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.[21]

Gabriel Stolzenberg and novelist Cormac McCarthy were close friends.[22]

Death

Stolzenberg died on 19 November 2019, at the age of 82, while being treated for a neurological disorder in Watertown, Massachusetts.[2]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Aba Stolzenberg . YIVO Archives . 16 December 2023.
  2. Web site: Gabriel Stolzenberg. Legacy. 16 December 2023.
  3. Web site: Monograph: Zisha Landau z"l . Landau Bass. Hyala. Ada Holtzman. Zchor.org. 16 December 2023.
  4. Web site: Faithful Friends Forever Club minute book. New York Public Library. 16 December 2023.
  5. Web site: Gabriel Stolzenberg . 19 November 2019 . CurrentObituary. 17 December 2023.
  6. Stolzenberg. Gabriel. June 1978 . Letter to the Editor . Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 25. 4. 242 . 0002-9920. 16 December 2023. Why should it be presumed that if I, a constructivist, were to review such a book I would have little choice but to object?.
  7. Book: Halmos, Paul R.. Paul R. Halmos. 1987. I Have a Photographic Memory. American Mathematical Society. 18 December 2023. 515. 978-0821819395.
  8. Stolzenberg . Gabriel. February 2004. Replies to the Replies. Social Studies of Science. SAGE Publications. 34. 1. 10.1177/0306312704041343. 18 December 2023.
  9. Stolzenberg . Gabriel. February 2004. Kinder, Gentler Science Wars. Social Studies of Science. SAGE Publications. 34. 1. 10.1177/0306312704041336. Review of Jay A. Labinger and Harry Collins (editors), The One Culture? A Conversation about Science, University of Chicago Press, 2001. 18 December 2023.
  10. Web site: The Invention of Jacques Derrida, Physics Faker. Stolzenberg . Gabriel . 15 March 2004 . Boston University . 18 December 2023.
  11. Book: Stolzenberg . Gabriel . 2000. Ashman . Keith . Barringer . Phillip . After the Science Wars: Science and the Study of Science. Routledge. Reading and Relativism: An introduction to the science wars. 978-0415212090.
  12. Stolzenberg has contributed to the talk page of the Science Wars article in Wikipedia.
  13. Reply to Gabriel Stolzenberg. 19 December 2023 . Jean Bricmont. Bricmont . Jean. Sokal. Alan . Alan Sokal. March 2004. . 34. 1. 10.1177/0306312704040491 . 107–113.
  14. Replies to the Replies. 19 December 2023. Stolzenberg. Gabriel . March 2004. . 34. 1. 10.1177/0306312704041343. 115–132. 0306-3127.
  15. Book: Evidence and Counter-evidence - Essays in Honour of Frederik Kortlandt: General Linguistics. S. Wiedenhof. Jeroen . Jeroen Wiedenhof . Lubotsky . Alexander. Alexander Lubotsky . Schaeken. Jos . 2009 . 416 . Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics. . 978-9042024717. Broad obstructive effects of language on progress in science have been intimated by Gabriel Solzenberg: despite a general awareness that language does seem to have the power to make us 'see things,' it is not taken seriously that language may be a determining influence and possibly a source of major error— for the contemporary scientist's own 'objective reality'., the one into which he enters as a student and then shares with a community of fellow practitioners..
  16. Book: S. Berger, Louis . Language and the Ineffable: A Developmental Perspective and Its Applications . 2011. 121 . . 978-0739147139. Solzenberg has shown the complex ways in which mathematicians' questionable dogmas are maintained by what he called 'belief traps'. However, these and the relatively few other similar attempts I know of to take the role of humans in mathematics into account remain circumscribed by their adultocentrism/Cartesian dualism..
  17. https://radaris.com/~Judith-Levine/1412881138 Judith Levine
  18. Book: Wasserman, Elga Ruth . Elga Ruth Wasserman. 2000. The Door in the Dream: Conversations With Eminent Women in Science. Joseph Henry Press.
  19. Web site: Nomi Stolzenberg. USC Gould School of Law. Gould.USC.Edu. 18 December 2023.
  20. Web site: Daniel Stolzenberg at Foundations of mathematics. Fwd: Gabriel Stolzenberg. New York University. CS.NYU.edu. 18 December 2023.
  21. Web site: Daniel Stolzenberg. University of California, Davis. UCDavis.Edu. 18 December 2023.
  22. News: Pick . Grant . December 1995 . The MacArthur Manner. . 18 December 2023.

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