Mathematician:Abraham Halevi Fraenkel

Abraham Halevi (Adolf) Fraenkel (in Hebrew: אברהם הלוי (אדולף) פרנקל) was a German-born Israeli Hungarian mathematician best known for his work on axiomatic set theory.

He improved Ernst Zermelo's axiomatic system, and out of that work came the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms.

He also wrote on topics in the history of mathematics.

Nationality
Israeli; born in Germany

History

 * Born: February 17, 1891 Munich, Germany
 * Died: October 15, 1965 Jerusalem, Israel

Theorems and Definitions

 * Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms: ZF and ZFC (with Ernst Zermelo)
 * Fraenkel-Mostowski Permutation Method (with Andrzej Mostowski)

Books and Papers

 * 1919: Einleitung in die Mengenlehre
 * 1922: The notion of 'definite' and the independence of the axiom of choice
 * 1960: Jewish mathematics and astronomy
 * 1953: Abstract Set Theory
 * 1958: Foundations of Set Theory (with Yehoshua Bar-Hillel)
 * 1938: Historical introduction to by Paul Bernays
 * 1966: Set Theory and Logic
 * 1967: Lebenskreise: Aus den Erinnerungen eines jüdischen Mathematikers
 * 1973: Foundations of Set Theory, 2nd Ed. (with Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, Azriel Levy and Dirk van Dalen)