Background
Engeler, Erwin was born on February 13, 1930 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
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Combinatory logic started as a programme in the foundation of mathematics and in an historical context at a time when such endeavours attracted the most gifted among the mathematicians. This small volume arose under quite differ ent circumstances, namely within the context of reworking the mathematical foundations of computer science. I have been very lucky in finding gifted students who agreed to work with me and chose, for their Ph. D. theses, subjects that arose from my own attempts 1 to create a coherent mathematical view of these foundations. The result of this collaborative work is presented here in the hope that it does justice to the individual contributor and that the reader has a chance of judging the work as a whole. E. Engeler ETH Zurich, April 1994 lCollected in Chapter III, An Algebraization of Algorithmics, in Algorithmic Properties of Structures, Selected Papers of Erwin Engeler, World Scientific PubJ. Co. , Singapore, 1993, pp. 183-257. I Historical and Philosophical Background Erwin Engeler In the fall of 1928 a young American turned up at the Mathematical Institute of Gottingen, a mecca of mathematicians at the time; he was a young man with a dream and his name was H. B. Curry. He felt that he had the tools in hand with which to solve the problem of foundations of mathematics mice and for all. His was an approach that came to be called "formalist" and embodied that later became known as Combinatory Logic.
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Engeler, Erwin was born on February 13, 1930 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
Diploma in mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1955. Doctor of Science in Mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1958. Habilitation, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1964.
He was one of Paul Bernays" students at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. After completing his doctorate in 1958, Engeler spent fourteen years in the United States, teaching at the University of Minnesota and at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1959 he contributed an independent proof of several equivalent conditions to omega-categorical theories, an important concept in Model theory.
He returned to Switzerland in 1972, where he served as a professor of logic and computer science at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule until his retirement in 1997.
Engeler was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1995.
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FEllow Association Computing Machinery. Member Association for Symbolic Logic, American Mathematics Society, Swiss Mathematics Society, Lions.
Married Margaret Knecht, April 14, 1956. Children: Christopher, Suzanne.