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Leopold Löwenheim's father was a mathematics teacher and he revised and edited his father's unfinished work on Democritus. Despite war service in France, Hungary and Serbia he published a series of important papers on mathematical logic during this time, extending work by Charles Peirce, Schröder and Whitehead.
Löwenheim is remembered for the Löwenheim-Skolem paradox (which Skolem pointed out is not a paradox!) which produces non-standard models, for example a denumerable model of the reals.
Forced to retire in 1934 (he was a quarter non-Aryan !) he lost his mathematical manuscripts, 1000 drawings and models and much more in the 1943 bombing of Berlin. Löwenheim survived and taught mathematics again after the War.
Texto original por: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson
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