Arnold Oberschelp (5 February 1932 – 31 August 2024) was a German mathematician and logician. He was for many years professor of logic and science theory[clarify] in Kiel.
Life and career
Oberschelp studied mathematics and physics at the universities of Göttingen and Münster. In Münster he received in December 1957 his doctorate in mathematical logic under Hans Hermes.[1][2][3][4] In 1958 he was a research assistant at the Mathematical Institute of the Technical College of Hannover (now Leibniz University Hannover) where he habilitated in mathematics in 1961.[1][5] In 1968, he accepted an appointment as full professor of logic and science at the University of Kiel. Oberschelp has been emeritus professor since 1997.[6]
Arnold Oberschelp developed a general class logic in which arbitrary classes can be formed without the contradictions of naive set theory. Additional axioms result in the Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, which is much more handy in his class-logical representation than in the usual predicate logical representation.[7]
In September 2019, he received the German Institute for Standardization's Beuth Memorial Coin in recognition of his services to standardization in mathematics and technical foundations.[9]
Oberschelp died on 31 August 2024, at the age of 92.[10]
Arnold Oberschelp (June 1968). "On the Craig-Lyndon Interpolation Theorem". The Journal of Symbolic Logic. 33 (2): 271–274. doi:10.2307/2269873. JSTOR2269873. S2CID30465874.
Arnold Oberschelp (1972). Aufbau des Zahlensystems. Moderne Mathematik in elementarer Darstellung. Vol. 7 (2nd ed.). Göttingen: Vandenhoek+Ruprecht.
Elementare Logik und Mengenlehre I/II. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim/Wien/Zürich 1974/1978, ISBN3-411-00408-8.
Arnold Oberschelp (1980). "Prinzipien des Aufbaus von Syntax und Semantik formaler Sprachen". In Joachim Ballweg and Hans Glinz (ed.). Grammatik und Logik — Jahrbuch 1979 des Instituts für deutsche Sprache(PDF). Sprache der Gegenwart — Schriften des Instituts für deutsche Sprache. Vol. 50. Düsseldorf: Pädagogischer Verlag Schwann. pp. 9–27. ISBN3-590-15650-3.
^Gegenüberstellung von ZFC in klassenlogischer und prädikatenlogischer Form [Comparison of ZFC in class logic vs. predicate logic form], in: Oberschelp, Allgemeine Mengenlehre, 1994, p. 261
^translated: German Association for Mathematical Logic and Foundational Research in the Exact Sciences