Manzano M., Sain I., Alonso E. (eds.) The Life and Work of Leon Henkin: Essays on His Contributions

Springer, 2014. - 351 p.
This is a comprehensive book on the life and works of Leon Henkin (1921–2006), an extraordinary scientist and excellent teacher whose writings became influential right from the beginning of his career with his doctoral thesis on The completeness of formal systems under the direction of Alonzo Church. Upon the invitation of Alfred Tarski, Henkin joined the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California Berkeley in 1953. He stayed with the group until his retirement in 1991. This edited volume includes both foundational material and a logic perspective. Algebraic logic, model theory, type theory, completeness theorems, philosophical and foundational studies are among the topics covered, as well as mathematical education. The work discusses Henkin’s intellectual development, his relation to his predecessors and contemporaries and his impact on the recent development of mathematical logic. It offers a valuable reference work for researchers and students in the fields of philosophy, mathematics and computer science.Biographical Studies
Leon Henkin (by Maria Manzano and Enrique Alonso).
Lessons from Leon (by Diane Resek).
Tracing Back Logic in Wonderland to My Work with Leon Henkin (by Nitsa Movshovitz-Hadar).
Henkin and the Suit (by Albert Visser).
A Fortuitous Year with Leon Henkin (by Solomon Feferman).
Leon Henkin and a Life of Service (by Benjamin Wells).
Henkin’s Contribution to XX Century Logic
Leon Henkin and Cylindric Algebras (by J. Donald Monk).
A Bit of History Related to Logic Based on Equality (by Peter B. Andrews).
Pairing Logical and Pedagogical Foundations for the Theory of Positive Rational Numbers — Henkin’s Unfinished Work (by Nitsa Movshovitz-Hadar).
Leon Henkin the Reviewer (by Concha Martinez Vidal and Jose Pedro Ubeda Rives).
Henkin’s Theorem in Textbooks (by Enrique Alonso).
Henkin on Completeness (by Maria Manzano).
Extensions and Perspectives in Henkin’s Work
The Countable Henkin Principle (by Robert Goldblatt).
Reflections on a Theorem of Henkin (by William Gunther and Richard Statman).
Henkin’s Completeness Proof and Glivenko’s Theorem (by Franco Parlamento).
From Classical to Fuzzy Type Theory (by Vilem Novak).
The Henkin Sentence (by Volker Halbach and Albert Visser).
April the 19th (by Maria Manzano).
Henkin and Hybrid Logic (by Patrick Blackburn, Antonia Huertas, Maria Manzano, and Klaus Frovin Jorgensen).
Changing a Semantics: Opportunism or Courage? (by Hajnal Andreka, Johan van Benthem, Nick Bezhanishvili, and Istvan Nemeti).
Appendix. Curriculum Vitae: Leon Henkin.