Robinson, Abraham

Robinson, Abraham

(1918–74) logician/mathematician; born in Waldenburg, Germany (now Walbrzych, Poland). Fleeing Nazism, he worked with the British during the war on aerodynamics. This study led him to Princeton (1960–61) where he made his best-known discovery, nonstandard analysis. Teaching at the University of California: Los Angeles (1962–67) and Yale (1967–73), he is known for work in algebra and model theory.