Herbert Enderton Explained

Herbert B. Enderton
Birth Name:	Herbert Bruce Enderton
Birth Date:	15 April 1936
Death Place:	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Fields:	Mathematical Logic
Workplaces:	UCLA
Alma Mater:	Harvard University

Herbert Bruce Enderton (April 15, 1936 – October 20, 2010)^[1] was an American mathematician. He was a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at UCLA and a former member of the faculties of Mathematics and of Logic and the Methodology of Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Enderton also contributed to recursion theory, the theory of definability, models of analysis, computational complexity, and the history of logic.^[2]

He earned his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1962.^[3] He was a member of the American Mathematical Society from 1961 until his death.^[1]

Personal life

He lived in Santa Monica. He married his wife, Cathy, in 1961 and they had two sons; Eric and Bert.^[4]

Death

He died from leukemia in 2010.^[4]

Selected publications

• Book: Enderton, Herbert B.. 0. Elements of Set Theory. Academic Press. 978-0-12-238440-0. 1977.
• Book: Enderton, Herbert B.. 0. A Mathematical Introduction to Logic. registration. Academic Press. 1972. 978-0-12-238452-3.
• Book: Enderton, Herbert B.. 0. Computability Theory: An Introduction to Recursion Theory. Academic Press. 2011. 978-0-12-384958-8.

External links

• Herbert B. Enderton home page
• Enderton publications
• Herbert Enderton UCLA lectures on YouTube

Notes and References

1. Deaths of AMS Members. AMS. Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 58. 1. January 2011.
2. Web site: Herbert B. Enderton, 1936-2010. Richard Zach. University of Calgary. October 28, 2010. February 9, 2011.
3. Web site: UCLA Department of Mathematics. UCLA. February 9, 2011.
4. News: Obituary. Los Angeles Times. October 31, 2010. February 9, 2011.