Günter Asser

Günter Asser
Born	February 26, 1926 Berlin
Died	March 23, 2015 (aged 89) Greifswald
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Greifswald
Theses	Eine semantische Charakterisierung der deduktiv abgeschlossenen Mengen des Prädikatenkalküls der ersten Stufe (1954) Theorie der log. Auswahlfunktionen[1] (1958)
Doctoral advisors	Karl Schröter, Heinrich Grell

Günter Asser (26 February 1926, Berlin – 23 March 2015) was a professor emeritus of logic and mathematics at the University of Greifswald.^[2] He has published numerous volumes on philosophers and mathematicians. His own research was in computability theory.

In 1954, with his doctoral advisor Karl Schröter, he co-founded the journal Zeitschrift für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagen der Mathematik, which later became Mathematical Logic Quarterly.^[3]

References

1. Asser, Günter at Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung
2. Emeriti, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Institut für Mathematik und Informatik, retrieved 2014-08-03.
3. MLQ website

External links

• Ostsee-Zeitung (German newspaper) article of 30 Mar 2015 — includes a group photograph from Greifswald University
• Publication list at DBLP