Mathematical logic genealogy

[James T Smith]

Dear Colleagues,

Does anyone remember an ASL session or AMS special session at the Joint Meetings decades ago, when a woman briefly asked for shows of hands responding to various versions of the question, "Are you an academic descendent of the notable logician X?"  As I recall, about 1/3 of the audience of 60 or so responded "yes" when X = Tarski, and another 1/3 responded "yes" when X = Scholz.  I believe that I commented aloud that I answered "yes" to both of those (via Gupta and Bachmann) and wondered if anyone else did;  no one else did.  Someone noted that the number of "yes" responses when X = Tarski was to be expected, but expressed surprise at the number when X = Scholz.  The lady said that she had anticipated that.

Does anyone remember who that lady was, or even when or where that was?  I think she was detectably younger than I, so she might still be around.  Or, maybe she wrote a historical note about it.

With best regards,

Jim
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James T. Smith

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics

San Francisco State University

mailto:smith at sfsu.edu

http://math.sfsu.edu/smith

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