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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Herbert B. Enderton papers
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1875
Physical Description:
2.2 Linear Feet
(6 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1964-2009
Abstract: Herbert B. Enderton was a mathematician and logician who taught mathematics at UCLA for over four decades, edited the Journal
of Symbolic Logic's Reviews Section for more than three decades, chaired the UCLA Logic Colloquium, and was an internationally
renowned textbook author in the areas of mathematical logic and set theory. The collection consists of publications authored
by Enderton, his handwritten and typed UCLA Logic Colloquium talks, correspondence, publication reviews, referee reports,
UCLA mathematics course evaluations, and records related to his professional involvement with the Association for Symbolic
Logic (ASL), the Journal of Symbolic Logic (JSL) and the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic (BSL).
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item], Herbert B. Enderton papers (Collection 1875). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Catherine Enderton, 2011.
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Processed by Kelly Besser with assistance from Alyssa Goodstein, 2013.
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Biography/History
Herbert Bruce Enderton was born on April 15, 1936 in Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. He received his B.S. in mathematics from
Stanford University in 1958 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1959 and 1962. He had a postdoctoral
appointment from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1962 to 1964 and worked as an assistant professor at
UC Berkeley from 1964 to 1968. In 1968 Enderton came to UCLA where he accepted a position as a lecturer with the mathematics
department and another position as the Reviews Section Editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic (JSL) where he worked alongside
fellow mathematician and logician Alonzo Church. Enderton also served as the JSL's Coordinating Editor from 1980-2002. Enderton
was active in the American Mathematical Society, the Association for Symbolic Logic, the Association for Computing Machinery
and chaired the UCLA Logic Colloquium for decades. Enderton's thesis and the majority of his published research were on recursion
theoretic hierarchies of sets of integers. His other research interests included definability theory, models of analysis,
computational complexity and the history of logic. His first book,
A Mathematical Introduction to Logic, was published in 1972 and is often used as the standard reference to logic. Spanish and Chinese translations were published
in 2004 and 2006. Enderton also published another successful textbook,
Elements of Set Theory in 1977. He retired from UCLA in 2003 as professor emeritus but continued to teach until he became ill in 2009. Herbert B.
Enderton died at his home in Santa Monica on October 22, 2010. His final textbook,
Computability Theory: An Introduction to Recursion Theory was completed after he became ill and published in 2011.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of publications authored by Enderton, his handwritten and typed UCLA Logic Colloquium talks, correspondence,
publication reviews, referee reports, UCLA mathematics course evaluations and records related to his professional involvement
with the Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), the Journal of Symbolic Logic (JSL) and the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic (BSL).
Materials also include correspondence between Enderton and his JSL Reviews Section colleague and collaborator, Alonzo Church
and a set of Church's manuscripts and reprints.