The first series primarily document Feferman’s term as president of the Association for Symbolic Logic from 1980 to 1982. The material consists largely of correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, and material from symposia and lectures. Accession 2018-045 largely consists of correspondence, publications and talks, Stanford University Mathematics Department material, and other professional material.

Solomon Feferman was a Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy and the Patrick Suppes Family Professor of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, he became Emeritus in 2004. Born December 13, 1928 in New York, New York, Feferman earned a B.S. from the California Institute of Technology in 1948, and his Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley in 1957. His interests included mathematical logic, philosophy of mathematics, and history modern logic. Feferman died in 2016.

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