Mathematical logic genealogy

[Andrés Villaveces]

It may have been Jean Larson. She wrote a paper called (I think) *A
picaresque genealogy of logicians.* She found very interesting (and in some
cases somewhat unexpected) connections between several genealogical lines.


Andrés Villaveces
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On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 9:10 PM James T Smith <smith at sfsu.edu> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> With best regards,
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> Jim
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> --------------------------------------
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> James T. Smith
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> Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
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> San Francisco State University
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> Sent from Roxane
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