Andrzej Ehrenfeucht (Polish: [ˈand.ʐɛj ˈɛrɛnfɔjxt], born 8 August 1932) is a Polish-American mathematician and computer scientist.

Andrzej Ehrenfeucht
Born (1932-08-08) August 8, 1932 (age 92)
NationalityPolish American
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado at Boulder
Doctoral advisorAndrzej Mostowski
Doctoral studentsDavid Haussler
Eugene Myers

Life

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Andrzej Ehrenfeucht formulated the Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé game, using the back-and-forth method given in Roland Fraïssé's PhD thesis. Also named for Ehrenfeucht is the Ehrenfeucht–Mycielski sequence.

In 1971 Ehrenfeucht was a founding member of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He currently teaches and does research at the University, where he runs a project, "breaking away", with Patricia Baggett; the project, using hands-on activities, aims at raising high-school students' interest in mathematics and technology.

Two of Ehrenfeucht's students, Eugene Myers and David Haussler, contributed to the sequencing of the human genome. They, with Harold Gabow, Ross McConnell, and Grzegorz Rozenberg, spoke at a 2012 University of Colorado two-day symposium honoring Ehrenfeucht's 80th birthday.[1]

Two journal issues have come out in his honor, one at his 65th birthday in Lecture Notes in Computer Science,[2] and one at his 80th in Theoretical Computer Science.[3]

Private life

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Ehrenfeucht married Alfred Tarski's daughter Ina Tarski.[4]

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Books

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  • Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Tero Harju, Ion Petre, David M. Prescott, Grzegorz Rozenberg, Computation in Living Cells: Gene Assembly in Ciliates, Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-540-40795-2
  • Patricia Baggett, Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Breaking Away from the Math Book: Creative Projects for Grades K-6, ISBN 1-56676-299-5
  • Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Tero Harju, Grzegorz Rozenberg, The Theory of 2-Structures: A Framework for Decomposition and Transformation of Graphs, World Scientific, 1999, ISBN 981-02-4042-2

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(accessible through Wirtualna Biblioteka Nauki)

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References

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  1. ^ "The 80th Birthday Symposium for Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science". University of Colorado Boulder. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
  2. ^ Jan Mycielski, Grzegorz Rozenberg, Arto Salomaa (Eds.): Structures in Logic and Computer Science, A Selection of Essays in Honor of Andrzej Ehrenfeucht. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1261 Springer 1997, ISBN 3-540-63246-8, pages I-X available for download. Accessed 04-29-2009
  3. ^ Rozenberg, G. (5 October 2012). "Formal and Natural Computing: Honoring the 80th Birthday of Andrzej Ehrenfeucht (Special Issue)". Theoretical Computer Science. 457: 1–180. doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2012.07.015.
  4. ^ Anita B. Feferman and Solomon Feferman, Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic, Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-521-80240-7, pp. 239–242.
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