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7 unusual facts about Bernays


Bernays

Martha Bernays (1861-1951), granddaughter of Isaac Bernays and wife of Sigmund Freud

Robert Bernays (1902-1945), Liberal MP, great-grandson of Adolphus Bernays

Paul Bernays (1888-1977), a Swiss mathematician born in London, a great-grandson of Isaac

David Hilbert

"The foundations of mathematics," with comment by Weyl and Appendix by Bernays, 464–89.

One who had to leave Germany, Paul Bernays, had collaborated with Hilbert in mathematical logic, and co-authored with him the important book Grundlagen der Mathematik (which eventually appeared in two volumes, in 1934 and 1939).

Joseph Justus Scaliger

A complete list of the works of Joseph will be found in his life by Bernays.

Of Joseph Scaliger, the only biography in any way adequate was that of Jakob Bernays (Berlin, 1855).


Arthur Rubin

Rubin's dissertation was entitled Free Algebras in Von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel Set Theory and Positive Elementary Inductions in Reasonable Structures.

Hilbert–Bernays provability conditions

In mathematical logic, the Hilbert–Bernays provability conditions, named after David Hilbert and Paul Bernays, are a set of requirements for formalized provability predicates in formal theories of arithmetic (Smith 2007:224).

Joe Van Moyland

Bernays has appeared in a number of television shows, most notably in The Tudors, where he played the famous composer Thomas Tallis.

Lewis Adolphus Bernays

Lewis Adolphus Bernays CMG (3 May 1831 – 22 August 1908) was a public servant and agricultural writer in Queensland, Australia.

Bernays was the son of Dr Adolphus Bernays (a brother of Chakam Isaac Bernays), a professor of German language and literature at King's College London, and his wife Martha, née Arrowsmith, and was born in London.

Robert Bernays

Wood was succeeded, upon being appointed Secretary of State for Air in May 1938, by Bernays's old friend and occasional political patron Walter Elliot.


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