Ladislav Rieger

Ladislav Svante Rieger
Born25 June 1916
Malmö, Sweden
Died14 February 1963(1963-02-14) (aged 46)
Prague, Czechoslovakia
NationalityCzech
OccupationMathematician

Ladislav Svante Rieger (25 June 1916 – 14 February 1963) was a Czech mathematician. He worked in the areas of algebra, mathematical logic and axiomatic set theory. He is considered to be the founder of mathematical logic in Czechoslovakia, having begun his work around 1957.[1][2]

Life

Ladislav Rieger was born on 25 June 1916 in Malmö, Sweden. His father, Ladislav Rieger Sr., was a philosopher and university professor at Charles University. He attended a secondary school in Žilina and graduated in Prague. He then studied mathematics at the Faculty of Science, Charles University and completed his studies, interrupted by the war, in 1945. Until 1958, he worked at the Czech Technical University in Prague. From 1958 until his death, he worked at the Institute of Mathematics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. He died in Prague on 14 February 1963.[3] He is buried at Vyšehrad Cemetery.[4]

References

  1. ^ Pecinová-Kozáková, Eliška (2005). "Ladislav Svante Rieger and His Algebraic Work". In Šafránková, Jana (ed.). WDS 2005 - Proceedings of Contributed Papers, Part I. Prague: Matfyzpress. p. 190. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.90.2398. ISBN 80-86732-59-2.
  2. ^ Bukovský, Lev (1997). "Logic in Czechoslovakia and Hungary". In Chiara, M.L.; Doets, K.; Mundici, D.; van Benthem, J. (eds.). Logic and Scientific Methods: Volume One of the Tenth International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Florence, August 1995. Synthese Library. Vol. 259. Kluwer. p. 452. ISBN 0-7923-4383-2.
  3. ^ "Ladislav Rieger" (in Czech). Masaryk University. Retrieved 2025-09-04.
  4. ^ "Vyšehradský hřbitov" (in Czech). Hřbitovy a pohřební služby hlavního města Prahy. Retrieved 2025-09-04.

Further reading

  • Čulík, Karel (1964), "O životě, díle a osobnosti L. Riegra (Life, works and personality of L. Rieger)", Časopis Pro Pěstování Matematiky (in Czech), 89 (4): 492–495, doi:10.21136/CPM.1964.117524, hdl:10338.dmlcz/117524
  • Hájek, Petr (1976), "K nedožitým šedesátinám Ladislava Riegra (On the unattained sixtieth birthday of Ladislav Rieger)", Časopis Pro Pěstování Matematiky (in Czech), 101 (4): 417–418, doi:10.21136/CPM.1976.117928, hdl:10338.dmlcz/117928
  • Bilova, Štěpánka (2005), "Lattice theory in Czech and Slovak mathematics until 1963", in Fuchs, Eduard (ed.), Mathematics throughout the ages II, Prague: Výzkumné centrum pro dějiny vědy, pp. 185–346, hdl:10338.dmlcz/401176, ISBN 80-7285-046-6, especially "3.5 Ladislav Rieger and lattices", pp. 238–250
  • Menzler-Trott, Eckart (2007), Logic's lost genius: the life of Gerhard Gentzen, History of Mathematics, vol. 33, AMS Bookstore, p. 264, ISBN 978-0-8218-3550-0
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