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Thoralf Albert Skolem ( Norwegian: [ˈtùːrɑɫf ˈskùːlɛm]; 23 May 1887 – 23 March 1963) was a Norwegian mathematician who worked in mathematical logic and set theory . Life. Although Skolem's father was a primary school teacher, most of his extended family were farmers.
Thoralf Skolem was a Norwegian mathematician who worked in mathematical logic and set theory. View two larger pictures. Biography. Thoralf Skolem's parents were Helene Olette Vaal and Even Skolem, who was primary school teacher. Although his father was a teacher, Thoralf came from a farming family with most of his relations being farmers.
Thoralf Albert Skolem. (1887—1963) Quick Reference. (1887–1963) Norwegian mathematician. The son of a teacher, Skolem was born at Sandsvaer in Norway and educated at the University of Oslo. He joined the faculty in 1911 and was appointed professor of mathematics in 1938, a post he held until his retirement in 1950.
Norwegian mathematician best known for his contributions to mathematical logic. The Skolem-Löwenheim theorem established that any class of formulas simultaneously satisfiable is also satisfiable in a denumerably infinite domain (1920).
logic. …and of the Norwegian mathematician Thoralf Skolem, a pioneer in metalogic (from 1933). The originally intended, or standard, interpretation takes the ordinary nonnegative integers {0, 1, 2, . . . } as the domain, the symbols 0 and 1 as denoting zero and one, and the symbols + and ·….
Thoralf Skolem 1887-1963. Herman Ruge Jervell University of Oslo. 1 Life. Thoralf Albert Skolem was born on 23 May 1887 in Sandsvær close to and later incorporated into the city of Kongsberg in Southern Norway 80 km west of Oslo. He grew up in a rural environment.
Professor, Dr. Th. Skolem, the Norwegian editor of Mathematica Scandinavica, died on the 23rd of March, 1963. With his passing is lost one of the central figures in Norwegian and international mathematics. Thoralf Albert Skolem was born in Sandsvser on the 23rd of May, 1887, but came to Oslo as a boy and graduated from the Katedralskolen in 1905.
